On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 00:41 -0400, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Kumba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:39:01 -0400 > > > 2.6.x was stable for the mosat part until 2.6.7. After that, it went > > downhill > > for awhile. 2.6.7 is by far, extremely stable for me on my Blade 100. > > Rumours > > are abound that 2.6.8.1 through 2.6.11 still cause lots of problems, mostly > > with > > scsi. I have yet to actually try 2.6.12 on my Blade. Maybe a weekend > > project. >
On my systems, it has been all 2.6.x kernels causing problems. 2.6.7 was the one which caused me to back off and retest with 2.6.12 series. > I think I can fix this bug if people give me some information about > the characteristics of the system afflicted by the problem. Answering > a few questions will go a long way: > > 1) All SMP or non-SMP? All SMP for me, U2, U60. See below > > 2) Any consistency of cpu type. Ie. all UltraSPARC-II cpus? > (I think this is the most important data point to obtain) > U2(2x400) (marginal); U60(2x450) (unusable); U60(2x300) almost OK; they are all sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) GNU/Linux, all have two disks installed. ======================== BUT: SB1000(2x900) --- STABLE > 3) All sym2 scsi controllers? > So far as I know > There is a bug in the UltraSPARC-II cpu, but my workaround in the > kernel may not be complete. > > Thanks. Hope this helps; [EMAIL PROTECTED] has information on Netra450 Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44626, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc, devrel)
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