--- On Mon, 7/3/11, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> 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 :-? >
Yeah entirely offline. > Does the card start beeping indicating a broken raid > (rebuild) or the > array status is ok? > Nothing reported by the card, all the VDs are in the optimal state. > Have you checked for any BIOS update (for your motherboard > and also for > the controller itself?) > The controller is on the latest bios, and the motherboard is on the latest I can find. > 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. > Ah I may have a bash at that then just to see if I can format it. I've another controller in the machine, an LSI SAS controller that's working fine. I'll double check the firmware and have a test with a live cd too. I definately had this machine up and running with lenny not too long ago, so I'm still leaning towards a driver issue. -- 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/841431.44877...@web26003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
