2.6.22 + sym53c8xx + mdadm

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Thursday 21 of February 2008, Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała wrote:
> [root at pldmachine ~]# uname -a
> Linux pldmachine 2.6.22.18-2 #1 SMP Tue Feb 19 01:53:02 UTC 2008 alpha EV67
> PLD Linux
>
> two discs (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) in software raid. Disc are on
> 0001:01:07.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895 (rev
> 02) controller (sym53c8xx module).
>
> geninitrd load sym53c8xx module, raid modules.. and say that discs are't
> available.
> They "appear" after 2-5 seconds.
>
> Is there other way from MODULE_sym53c8xx_USLEEP="5000000" to wait for
> disc before mdassemble it?

Is scsi_wait_scan loaded by geninitrd? It makes kernel wait until 
everything "appears".

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/