Re: afacli diagnostic boot params

Ask dell tech support to send you a new raid card.  We had a Perc2/SC go
bad (its a megaraid card and not aacraid tho) and it would lock up randomly,
sometimes not post, print weird errors on tty1, etc...Just ask the tech,
usually they'll send you one without any problems.

			Adam

On 7 Apr 2003, Kelly Campbell wrote:

> Hi, we are having some problems with a PowerEdge 4600 and PERC3/Di RAID
> controller. The controller seems to be locking up or otherwise timing
> out. We're using RedHat Advanced Server 2.1. The controller sometimes
> does this at boot up before ever getting to the first stage boot loader.
> It happens after the perc controller POSTs and before it lists the
> containers. Other times it will happen after the OS is booted, when
> there's heavy load such as creating a new tablespace data file in
> Oracle. In this case the machine becomes unresponsive, the load goes up
> to about 20, and eventually after 10 minutes or so, the kernel panics in
> an interrupt handler. We're using kernel 2.4.9-e16smp.
>
> I've talked to Dell tech support but we haven't found the root cause
> yet. I'm trying to figure out what we can do to get more information
> about what is causing the problem. The docs for the afacli mention the
> diagnostic boot-params, but they don't give a list of them and I can't
> find a list anywhere on the net. Does anyone have information on some
> boot-params that would be of use to me in debugging this issue? I'm
> thinking there's something like the diag-switch? in OpenBoot on sparcs.
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
> -Kelly
>

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