Re: 2.2.0-pre5...
Doug Ledford (dledford@redhat.com)
Sat, 09 Jan 1999 18:38:19 +0000
Alberto Vignani wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> >
> > Oh, well.. Based on what the arca-[678] patches did, there's now a pre-5
> > out there. Not very similar, but it should incorporate the basic idea:
> > namely much more aggressively asynchronous swap-outs from a process
> > context.
> >
> > Comment away,
>
> <B>aic7xxx is broken</B> for me. Recognized and configured ok by pre-5,
> it
> worked fine for simple things (like ls or rm a file), but as soon as I
> started
> accessing my disk more heavily the whole SCSI bus went mad, starting a
> sequence of
> resets/timeouts which I wasn't able to stop, not even with Alt-SysRq.
> I tried it twice with the same results. Hopefully no data was damaged.
>
> I have an Adaptec AHA-2940 (no UW), and the last time I had troubles
> with
> it was long, long time ago. And to be sure, I always used the default
> kernel options with it.
What kind of drive? Get me the info from /proc/scsi/scsi. In the
meantime, turn off tagged queueing on that drive (read the
README.aic7xxx file).
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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