On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:01:02PM +0100, mt1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I have posted this message yesterday but I don't see it on the mailing list. > Sorry for the inconvenience if you see it twice... > > Today, I have tested hardware with diag-switch? and diag-level true and > a serial console. Nothing to declare... > > Original message: > > Hello, > > A, U2 (2 GB, 2 UltraSPARC-II, 2 73 GB SCSI disks [raid1]) is running > Debian/testing with 2.6.20.3 kernel. This station is used as mail server > and I have seen some freezes. When it freezes, sysrq or stop+A do not > work (not panic nor Oops, only freeze). > > I have tested 2.6.18 (from debian), 2.6.20.x without any success. > When I boot with root=/dev/sda4 instead root=/dev/md1, system is > more stable (but not enough to be a mail server :-( ). > > With 2.4 kernel and without raid1 (I don't understand why I > cannot use my raid1 volumes with 2.4 kernel...), system is > stable and does not freeze. I have tested hardware with SUNvts > (from Solaris 9) and it sounds good. > > With the _same_ kernel, an U60-SMP is stable. The difference > between both kernel are only Sbus versus PCI support _and_ > ESP-SCSI version Symbios support. I suspect a bug in the > ESP-SCSI support but I don't know how investigate. I cannot > boot any 2.6.20 with debug option du to a "address not > aligned" message when it boots. > > Any suggestion ? I have tried the last 2.6.21-rc4. Same bug. JKB - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
