dth@xxxxxxxxxx (Danny ter Haar) wrote: > > Known story: > last stable kernel for this machine is/was 2.6.12-mm1 > > Every 2.6.1[34] kernel panics so far. > Sometimes after 40 minutes, sometimes after 4 days. > > Config/more info at: > http://newsgate.newsserver.nl/kernel/2.6.14-rc2-git7/ The aic79xx driver shat itself. The log buffer starts with scsi1 (4:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi1 (4:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi1 (4:0): rejecting I/O to offline device So we've probably lost the info which will tell us how the problems started. A serial console would be nice. > This time it was scsi system again which "blew-up" > > Obvious difference i see between 2.6.12 en 2.6.1[34] is that the > scsi/ethernet cards have different IRQ's set. > If i'm correct acpi code changed in 2.6.13, right ? > > Since the 2.6.12-mm1 kernel survived 3 weeks+ and gave super performance > i'm convinced it's not a hardware issue. > > Just giving feedback. > > Will try git8 and mm2 and of course report here when they fail. Are all the failures due to the aic79xx driver failing in this manner? If not then please report the different failures separately, thanks. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html