Centos locking up system with mptscsih driver error

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Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>"Paul R. Ganci" <ganci@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
>>Alas, I have the original BIOS installed. I was checking
>>and it does appear there are BIOS updates available.
>>
>Actually, the overwhelming majority of PowerNow/Cool'n Quiet
>issues I've seen are due to inappropriate APIC/ACPI/POST
>setup by the BIOS.  Nearly all BIOS updates fix these issues
>in my experience.
>
Well I did more research and have to clarify my statement. The installed 
BIOS is v4.05 which indeed was the original BIOS is actually only one 
version below the last BIOS provided by Tyan for the Tiger MPX 
(S2466N-4M). The new features and fixes for v4.06 are:

Fixes bios resetting during reboot issue.
Fixes hang on shutdown issue when no keyboard is present.

I find it hard to believe that flashing the BIOS to v4.06 is going to 
fix the mptscsi problem.

I did install 2.6.9-27.ELsmp. This kernel has the same problem as the 
2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp. The actual error messages look like:

MPTSCSI: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=f24891c0)
SCSI: destination target 1, lun 0
    command = Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
MPTSCSI: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=f24891c0)

These messages scroll up the monitor with the target drive and sc 
address changing. This system is only stable if I run 2.6.9-11.ELsmp. 
Unfortunately I don't find any other information in the log file related 
to the SCSI errrors indicated above ... the system clearly can't write 
to the drives and the raid5 array is corrupted. Again I find it hard to 
believe that the BIOS can be responsible since the system is so stable 
using kernel 2.6.9-11.ELsmp.

I have placed the latest dmesg log, an excerpt of the messages log and 
my grub.conf in http://www.nurdog.com/~ganci/crash/dmesg, 
http://www.nurdog.com/~ganci/crash/messages and 
http://www.nurdog.com/~ganci/crash/grub.conf respectively, in case 
someone would like to take a look. I would really like to get to the 
root of this problem and will be happy to provide any other information 
for anyone willing to help me debug this problem. In the meantime I will 
just run with 2.6.9-11.ELsmp.

Thanks for any help.

-- 
Paul (ganci@xxxxxxxxxx)


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