I've been trying, without success, to get the aacraid driver to work reliably on a Dell 2650 Poweredge.
I'm using Debian so I tried kernel 2.6.8 first (Debian has it packaged nicely but from a SCSI driver point of view it's just a standard kernel.org source). 2.6.8 worked... but died as soon as we put the server under load. 2.6.11 also died under load. Yesterday I put 2.4.27 on the box because I had understood that the aacraid is stable in that release of the kernel. But a few hours ago the box died in exactly the same way (it was under quite heavy load). Unfortunately, I can't give you error messages because I don't have any log from the failures. It comes out on the console and I don't have it saved anywhere. But it definitely is the raid controller. Maybe someone can answer the following for me: - is the driver understood to be stable in 2.4.27? - is there another driver I could try (would the pre-Cox one work?) - is there anything I can do to alleviate the problem? Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
