Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.19 (and newer) - prob with the new adaptec aic7xxx driver and Promise UltraTrak100 TX2 | From | Philippe Troin <> | Date | 23 Jul 2003 20:41:02 -0700 |
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Vinnie <listacct1@lvwnet.com> writes:
> Hello everyone, > > Yep, I know... 2.4.19 is old news. But I have tried this with newer > official kernels also, same results. Not expecting anybody to have a > quick fix (although any suggestions would be really welcome!), but I > do feel that this should be reported, since I have not seen many other > posts indicating problems like this with "the new adaptec drivers". > > Our primary file server is a dual 1.4GHz Tualatin 512K machine, with a > Tyan S2688 Serverworks HE-SLt mainboard, 2GB of registered ECC SDRAM > (4x512 modules), which also has an AIC7899 dual channel U160 host > adapter onboard. > > The only SCSI device currently attached is a Promise UltraTrak100 TX8 > - an 8-bay SCSI-to-ATA RAID subsystem, with eight 120GB Western > Digital drives configured as a 7-drive RAID5 array and 1 non-assigned > hot spare. The unit's SCSI interface can run 80MB/sec U2W/LVD (and > unit's SCSI ID is configured appropriately in the HA BIOS. The > internal ribbon cable from motherboard to external connector is a > custom-made Granite Digital teflon cable, and I am also using a > Granite Digital Active Terminator to terminate the bus (at the TX8). > Using the external cable supplied by Promise with the unit. > > Note: Problem is reproducible with an Adaptec AHA-2940U2W used as the > host adapter instead. > > In a nutshell, the problem goes like this: > > If I compile the kernel to use the NEW aic7xxx adaptec driver, the > SCSI bus hangs almost immediately upon commencement of a large write > operation, such as attempting to copy a 500MB file from one of the > internal client machines to a SMB shared directory on this server. > The problem is reproducible on 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 kernels, if I use the > "new" aic7xxx driver.
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Have you tried the updated aic7xxx driver at http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ ?
AFAIK it fixes a lot of problems with aic7xxx and was not included in 2.4.21 for technicalities.
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