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DateMon, 21 Mar 2005 10:42:17 +0100
FromRaphael Jacquot <>
SubjectRe: SATA Promise TX4 Crash
Brad Campbell wrote:
> Neil Whelchel wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have two Promise SATA TX4 cards connected to a total of 6 Maxtor 250 GB
>> drives (7Y250M0) configured into a RAID 5. All works well with small
>> disk load, but when a large number of requests are issued, it causes
>> crash
>> similar to the attached, except that the errors before the crash are on a
>
>
>> EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.11.2)
>> EIP is at scsi_put_command+0xbb/0x100
>
>
> Oooh Oooh Oooh, pick me Mr Kotter!
> I have seen this repeatedly, fought it and "apparently" beat it by
> upgrading my PSU.
> I could reliably reproduce it by running a raid resync and issuing SMART
> queries
> to the drives, but after a PSU upgrade it has gone away.
> I have tried hard to reproduce it recently but I just can't get it to
> crash anymore.
>
> I have a similar setup 4x SATA-TX4 cards and 15x 7Y250M0 drives. I'm
> thought it was actually
> a bug, but as I can't reproduce it anymore it's making it a bit hard to
> track down.
>
> Not much help, sorry.
>
> Brad

I have similar crashes with a (netbooted) epia and 4 250G Seagate 7200.8
PATA drives.
removing the kernel preempt stuff & realtime scheduling and stuff
alleviates the issue a bit but it occured again yesterday.

a quirk in the epia forces me to reboot the box by power cycling it.
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