Re: Adaptec SCSI driver lockups

From: Luc Lalonde (llalonde@giref.ulaval.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 16:54:11 EST

Hello Justin and Alan,

There was some garbage printed to the /var/log/messages before the
lockup but it is unreadable.

I'll have to read up on how to connect a serial console to this
machine. It's our main server (YPserver, mail, http, etc) so I don't
want to use it as a test system. If I use the append="aic7xxx=verbose"
in my lilo.conf will it log extra messages in /var/log/messages? If so,
will it be useful enough to figure out what the problem is?

Alan,

Wasn't the old_aic7xxx the default driver up to 2.4.5? If so I don't
know how using the old driver would help since I had the same problems
with 2.4.[2,3,4]. Unless there was some other stuff that has been fixed
that would cause similar problems.

Cheers.

"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
>
> >Hello folks,
> >
> >I'm having trouble identifying wether I'm having hardware or software(
> >OS ) problems. For the past couple of Months I've been having system
> >lockups every 10 days or so.
>
> Are there any kernel messages printed prior to the lockup?
> Please attach a serial cable to another machine, enable serial console
> support, run with aic7xxx=verbose, and log all console activity remotely.
>
> --
> Justin 

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Courriel: llalonde@giref.ulaval.ca

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