Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-11 Thread kenbo
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Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-11 Thread kenbo
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers 01/10/01

Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-10 Thread Tim Wright
Hmmm... it's actually not quite that simple. The card on it's own doesn't cause any problems. It's when the NMI watchdog stuff is enabled that all hell breaks loose at least on my 8500R. Basically, every CPU in the system gets hammered with NMIs (1000's per second). The system is slower than it sh

Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-10 Thread Ken Brunsen/Iris
Ok, on a suggestion from JP, I've built the 2.4.0 kernel without SMP support. I did, however, have to make one change to a header file to get it to compile the kernel and here is a diff diff include/linux/linux/kernel_stat.h include/linux/linux/kernel_stat.h.sv 48d47 < #ifdef CONFIG_SMP 50d48 <

Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-09 Thread JP Navarro
Miles Lane wrote: ... > Are you saying that this is a hardware bug that is impossible to > develop a work-around for in the kernel? If this is just a bug, > shouldn't we try to fix it rather than avoid it? This is hardware behaving as designed but not supported by the kernel. IBM was aware of th

Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-09 Thread Miles Lane
JP Navarro wrote: > One possibility: > > When we first tested 2.4.0-test8 on NetFinity 7000s we had random crashes, > typically within an hour of booting. The problem was identified as a Wiseman > Systems Management adapter generated hardware interrupt that 2.4 doesn't handle > (this was not a p

Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-09 Thread Ken Brunsen/Iris
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Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-09 Thread JP Navarro
One possibility: When we first tested 2.4.0-test8 on NetFinity 7000s we had random crashes, typically within an hour of booting. The problem was identified as a Wiseman Systems Management adapter generated hardware interrupt that 2.4 doesn't handle (this was not a problem with 2.2.x). If you hav

linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-09 Thread Ken Brunsen/Iris
Hello all, I've been sorta pulling the 2.4 kernel and testing with it now for awhile on my IBM NetFinity 5500 and since the test12 I've been having a continuous issue with crashing the OS during a pull of source code across the network (>1Gb files). I've been trying to figure out what it ma