Eric Lee Green wrote:
>
> Mikael Eriksson wrote:
> > I'm considering totally abondoning sw RAID. Getting tired of this.
>
> May be an interaction between the Adaptec driver and the sw RAID? Dumping the
> sw RAID and seeing if the problem still occurs may be best solution, yes... if
> problem no longer occurs, we know the problem is in the sw RAID driver
> somewhere (or its interaction with the adaptec driver).
That's not true at all. Dumping the sw raid to see if the problem goes away
will be totally inconclusive as the the source of the problem because it will
result in material changes to SCSI bus loading patterns. Those changes could
cause what is actually an aic7xxx driver problem to go away simply due to load
produced on the SCSI bus. Regardless, people should first get the 5.1.29
aic7xxx driver from my site. Next, if they are having issues with the system
seeming to lock up for short periods of time, then they should check their
logs for any kernel messages about the SCSI bus being reset. If they find
such messages, then they should understand that this is a SCSI bus issue and
not a sw raid issue. Next, if it's a SCSI issue, then they should modify
their system startup so that they can pass the startup up option
aic7xxx=verbose:0xff29 to the aic7xxx driver (if the driver is compiled
directly into the kernel then adding this to the lilo append line is
sufficient, if the driver is a module then this needs to be added to the
module options for the aic7xxx module). Then, they need to get me the
messages that this produces so I can start looking into the issue.
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