Bjarne Thomsen wrote:
> Have you also tried the latest redhat kernel like
> kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-5.i686.rpm ?
> It would be nice to know if redhat has a fix.
> 
>  -- Bjarne

I can try it.

I'll let you know what happens


> 
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 23:57, Brad Felmey wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:22, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Testing one of our 2GB Dual-Pentium III (1ghz) machines we get a hard 
>>>lock with kernel enterprise.
>>>kernel-enterprise-2.4.19.9mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
>>>
>>>The lock up seems to be related to the scsi driver. aic7xxx. The last 
>>>message that is echoed to the syslog consol is:
>>>kernel: (scsi0:A:0:0): Locking max tag count at 64
>>>
>>>after that the machine is dead. No ping, but keyboard works enough for 
>>>Alt-SysRq stuff. Only problem is Alt-SysRq keys won't work. :( syncing 
>>>the disk results in the machine "trying" (It starts to sync the disk) 
>>>but will never finish, there is no HD activity. Then the keyboard will 
>>>not respond anymore.
>>>
>>>Trying to get a process list, or memory stats will finish off the lock 
>>>also. (as in it will become so useless that reset button is only thing 
>>>working).
>>>
>>>If my first sysrq key is to reboot it will.
>>>
>>>I ran memtest yesterday and all memory is ok. Mandrake 8.1 has no 
>>>problems on this machine.
>>>
>>>Heavy disk activity triggers the lock, like installing an RPM. :)
>>>
>>>It will always hard lock when installing the "FlashPlayer-5.0-8mdk" RPM.
>>>
>>>any suggestions? or specific sysrq keys you'd like me to try in locked 
>>>up state? (there is no oops or anything like that on the consol window)
>>
>>I have a dual-1GHz PIII Coppermine system with 2GB on a Supermicro
>>Serverworks board and Adaptec 3200S that has this exact problem. Only
>>with highmem/kernel-enterprise after 2.4.8. RPM will kill the box
>>exactly as you've described. I've had to retrograde the box and stay
>>away from current kernels.
>>-- 
>>Brad Felmey
>>
>>
> 
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