Re: 2.0.36 Lockups with and without OOPS

Edward Muller (edwardam@home.com)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:12:39 -0500


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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.
>
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