Re: PE2650 / Perc 3Di crash

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Matthias Pigulla wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> tonight, I lost one of my PowerEdge boxes with a kernel panic. I'm
> running a PERC 3/Di, RAID10, on Debian woody with a custom 2.4.19
> kernel. I'll try to provide all information I can collect, I hope
> someone can help me to track this issue down. Please bear with me,
> although if it's long :)

FYI, this is what we have seen on our aacraid systems under heavy I/O
and CPU load.  It's unclear at this time if this is a firmware issue
or a driver issue, but I do know that now Dell and Adaptec are working
on a resolution...

Turning off write caching will provide a work around, although you
will still get timeouts, it looks as though the crashes will be prevented.

Regards
James Bourne

-- 
James Bourne, Supervisor Data Centre Operations
Mount Royal College, Calgary, AB, CA
www.mtroyal.ab.ca

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