On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 23:12 -0600, Mark Rustad wrote: > On Feb 2, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Wakko Warner wrote: > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Yes, getting the oops traces will help, thanks. And confirmation > >> on a more recent kernel would be good. > > > > Here's what I get. I used netconsole so whatever was logged prior > > to it > > starting was lost. > > > > The PC is a suprtmicro x5da8 with an onboard dual channel AHA-39320 > > u320 > > controller. I have a dual channel AHA-39160 u160 and a dual channel > > AHA-2940U/UW (ch0/internal is wide/narrow, ch1/externel is narrow). > > I have used an x6-class Supermicro motherboard with the Adaptec u320 > controller and I had problems hot-swapping drives with 2.6.18. It > seemed that the bus reset that the backplane processor generated > caused trouble for the driver, killing the SCSI bus. 2.6.16 and > 2.6.17 locked up the kernel in the case of hot-swapping drives. > > I switched to 2.6.19.2 and things are better. I did find that a card > dump is produced when hot-inserting a drive, so it is way noisier > than I think it should be, but it continues to operate and life goes > on, which is much better behavior than 2.6.16, 2.6.17 or 2.6.18. > > > I thought it was because I had option roms turned off, but when I > > turned > > them on, it still has problems. What's odd is the fact that if I > > boot with init=/bin/sh, modprobe aic7xxx, it works fine and I can > > exec init and it works fine. > > I don't know what is up with that, but based on what I have seen I > would recommend using 2.6.19.x instead of 2.6.18 for systems using > the aic79xx driver. > Wasn't the original complaint in reference to the aic7xxx driver not aic79xxx? Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
