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SubjectRe: 2.1.82-87: Hanging in __wait_on_page (was: Re: Hang in wait_on_inode with SMP 2.1.87) and SMP+IO APIC+aic = bad
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Steve Hsieh wrote:
>
> > It seems that the common thread among all of us is that we have the
> > aic7xxx SCSI controller? And it seems that using the 5.0.5 (5.0.7?)
> > aic7xxx driver will avoid this problem.
>
> I've also seen it with 2.1.76 - .84 on an Advansys ABP940U
> SCSI controller with a drive with a small firmware bug.
> Disabling the read cache on the drive solved all my problems.
>
> Maybe something similarly subtle is needed for the aic7xxx
> line of controllers?

I should add here that the __wait_on_page bug
has nothing to do with SCSI at all. The process
hangs accessing a large software RAID 5 partition
built on a number of IDE drives. The problem seems
to be with the RAID 5 driver. Accessing IDE drives
directly doesn't seem to cause a problem.

Rich.

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