Re: Removal of ROMB card in Dell 1650 to prevent aacraid/kernel SCSI hangs

James Wilson wrote:

> All,
> 
> Out of frustration and desperation to reach a stable operating platform 
> of linux on a Dell 1650 server, I am considering removing the PERC3/Di 
> ROMB card from 4 Dell 1650 units that constantly fail in production with 
> the all too familiar "SCSI hang ?" message. No matter which kernel 
> (2.2.25 / 2.4.21 / 2.4.23 + mark_s' new aacraid driver) and no matter 
> which firmware (3153, 3170) the servers fail within the first few days 
> of being in a production environment.
> 
> My question to the readers in this list is, has anyone taken the step of 
> removing the ROMB card and just using the drives a plain old SCSI 
> devices in the Dell 1650 machines? If so, how did you fare? My greatest 
> concern is that once these ROMB cards are removed and the drives are 
> used as plain old SCSI drives (NO RAID! NO PERC3!) that we'll find this 
> 'SCSI hang' problem manifests itself in the SCSI layer of the machines.
> 
> Someone tell me it isn't so?
> 
> Cheers.
> 

Hey James,

A workaround is to use PERC3/DC, instead of /DI. ;)

-Andy

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