Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Bilow
The aic7xxx driver is definitely unstable in my experience on SMP when shared interrupts are used. It will usually hang on boot in this case. This is an especially annoying problem because many SMP motherboards will insist on assigning interrupts automatically; Intel and Supermicro are particul

Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-28 Thread Peter Pregler
Hi, I had (or have) similar hangs (all frozen, no syslog-entry, kernel still running since ping works, but all user-level stuff hangs). The hardware in my case is a onboard AIC-7890, an additional AHA-394X, a 3com 3c905B. All on a Dual-PIII-450 on a Asus motherboard running raidutils 0.9 on a SMP

Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-27 Thread Stephen Waters
have you tried the folks on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list? this is the list recommended in LINUX/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx ... -s Jeff Hill wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for the assistance. > > I did recompile the kernel with Translucent disabled (I don't know why > it is enabled by default?).

Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-27 Thread David Cooley
Is the PC overclocked in any way? I had troubles with my 2940U2W in both Windows and Linux when I overclocked the Front Side Bus from 100MHz to 103MHz. Seems the Adaptec cards can't handle *ANYTHING* over 33.3 MHz on the PCI bus. At 02:53 PM 3/27/2000, Jeff Hill wrote: >Thanks to everyone for

Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-27 Thread Jeff Hill
Thanks to everyone for the assistance. I did recompile the kernel with Translucent disabled (I don't know why it is enabled by default?). Unfortunately, this has not affected the problem. As for the Adaptec, I had checked on a hardware discussion list and understood that, while some Adaptec's we

Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-26 Thread m . allan noah
jeff- i am using 2.2.14 with mingo patch, and it is great. i have a dozen or so boxes, 512meg, SMP pIII 450, ncr scsi, etc in this config. all are fine. it would be interesting to see if raid is the issue, or your adaptec (i am inclined to think the latter). 1. swap scsi cards. i like symbios/nc

RE: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-25 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:18 AM > To: Jakob Østergaard > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel? > [snip] > > > My mdstat reads: >

Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-25 Thread Jeff Hill
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jeff Hill wrote: >>--snip--<< > > My system hangs for 30 seconds to 5 minutes several times a day using a > > vanilla kernel 2.2.14 from ftp.kernel.org with a 2.2.14 RAID patch from > > Redhat on my Debian (Potato version) server. When the system h

Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-25 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jeff Hill wrote: > Which is currently the most stable kernel that supports new-style RAID? > > My system hangs for 30 seconds to 5 minutes several times a day using a > vanilla kernel 2.2.14 from ftp.kernel.org with a 2.2.14 RAID patch from > Redhat on my Debian (Potato ver

System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

2000-03-25 Thread Jeff Hill
Which is currently the most stable kernel that supports new-style RAID? My system hangs for 30 seconds to 5 minutes several times a day using a vanilla kernel 2.2.14 from ftp.kernel.org with a 2.2.14 RAID patch from Redhat on my Debian (Potato version) server. When the system hangs, it doesn't c