Re: [PLUG] Hard Drives Crashing

[Kris Reilly <kar@ramblingredneck.com>]

hair raising to say the very least ;-)

I updated the kernel on one of the boxes and it hasn't crashed yet
(fingers crossed).


On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 14:04, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> I can confirm that I have had similar hardware smp/aic7xxx as well as
> similar crash messages. So I can confirm this.
> 
> I have updated the kernel (rh's latest) and things are going well. But
> things were ugly for a while.
> 
> I have read that smp/aic7xxx/ext3 don't play well, somewhere on the
> kernel mailing list. I think that the latest patches iron those bugs out.
> 
> We have not had a problem since upgrading. I upgraded again to
> 2.4.18-24.7.xsmp and we have really nice uptimes.
> 
> Good luck with this. It can be hair raising.
> 
> Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
> CCN sysadmin
> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Martin DiViaio wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Are you running the preemptable kernel patch?
> >
> > I've seen that patch cause problems with SMP and the aic7xxx module. I was
> > never able to track down exactly why the problems occured. I did find some
> > odd references that the aic7xxx module has problems with CPU locking under
> > SMP.
> >
> >
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