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Recently I've been mucking with Adaptec 29160 U160 cards on both a Dual Xeon Dell Poweredge 2650 with 4GB of RAM and a dual Athlon 1.8GHz Tyan MPX motherboard with 4GB of RAM.
On the Dell box I was trying to get a new tape library on a new 29160 to coexist with the onboard AACRAID. I had all sorts of random crashes one or two days into rebooting, and heavy disk I/O (such as running the backup) would cause a crash sooner. The screen would be left with i/o error message and the file systems would dissapear.
After much googling I discovered that people wiere having issues on the 2.6 kernels with these two adapters... moved to 2.4.28 and everthing is running nicely.
On the dual Athlon MP box I was trying to set up loop-aes partitions and shredding the partitions or using the losetup method in the loop-aes readme would cause the dd process to quit after a few minutes. Again moving to the 2.4.28 kernel fixed the issue and the SCSI disk seems more responsive as well. Note, this box has no other SCSI adapters.
So just in case you are trying loop-aes on a box with aic7xxx compatible card, be warned -> use the 2.4 series kernels.
Best regards,
- ---Venkat.
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- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
