Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:12:39 -0500 | From | Edward Muller <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.36 Lockups with and without OOPS |
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They are Symbios Logic Chipsets (Supported by 2.0.36) and there are two scsi buses (one narrow one wide)
Ian D Romanick wrote:
> > I have a fairly new (one month old) server at a clients that locks up > > after being up anywhere for 15 minutes to 3 days. It is running an > > updated (non 2.2) Redhat 5.1 distribution. Specifics are as follows: > > > > Hardware: > > Intel N400BX Motherboard (Built in SCSI (UW/U) & ethernet) > > Intel Astor Chasis with RAID Cage > > > > Software: > > Linux Kernel v2.0.36 (patched with AMI's drivers) > > I assume that the onboard SCSI is Adaptec? If so, I strongly suggest that > you roll back (at least the SCSI driver) to 2.0.32. Numerous people > (including myself) have reported system locks with the 2.0.36 and higher > AIC7xxx driver. > > The hangs seem to happen when you do disk-to-disk operations. They also > tend to happen more often on slower machines. On my dual P5-133, everytime > I copy a file that is larger the ~1MB from one drive to another the system > hangs. People with faster CPUs usually say that the hangs are more > intermittent. > > -- > "That is not dead http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~idr/ > Which can eternal lie > Yet with strange aeons > Even death may die." -- H. P. Lovecraft > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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