On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:23:39 +0000, Glyn Astill wrote: > I've recently installed squeeze amd64 on an old machine to do some tests > and I'm having problems with the aacraid driver and a 2610SA controller. > It seems the contorller has issues whilst I'm formatting a partition on > it, then shuts down completely. I've pasted relevent dmesg and syslog > bits below. > > This controller has been used in the past with no issues, that's not to > say it's not a hardware error, just that I don't think so. > > I was thinking of trying an alternative driver, perhaps the ones form > the adaptec site. Are there any other options?
(...) > syslog: > Mar 4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804203] aacraid: Host adapter reset > request. SCSI hang ? > Mar 4 15:27:29 debian kernel: [ 5099.020030] AAC: Host adapter BLINK LED > 0xc9 > Mar 4 15:27:30 debian kernel: [ 5100.016028] AAC0: adapter kernel panic'd c9. Seems to go completely offline :-? Does the card start beeping indicating a broken raid (rebuild) or the array status is ok? Have you checked for any BIOS update (for your motherboard and also for the controller itself?) Another thing you could try is to perfom the formatting from a LiveCD (i.e., SystemRescueCD, GParted...) to discard a problem with the kernel version used in Squeeze. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.03.07.15.30...@gmail.com
