On Friday 08 November 2002 05:03 pm, Per �yvind Karlsen wrote: can you download MDK 9.0 full release, it has updates that might help your problems with the RC-2 you are using.
> Per �yvind Karlsen wrote: > > 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. > > > > I reported a bug some days earlier about problems with the enterprise > > kernel, but not the same scsi driver(mine is sym53c8xx) > > And as I said this did'nt happen with the old 2.4.5 kernel(from > > mdk-cooker) it was running for almost a year, but now it's had a mem > > upgrade and is running the kernel-enterprise kernel, and we've > > experienced lockups with 2.4.18 and 2.4.19. > > But this does'nt happen when using rpm, and the machine is alive, > > responding to ping etc. but could'nt read from the disks, and happens > > under high load(not very high, just compiling something could trigger > > it ), at first I thought it was a gcc-3.2 issue, but when trying with > > kernel-enterprise-2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk this also happened, so I'll guess > > this might be related > > Has this been fixed yet? > We never got any feedback from Juan.. > Don't mean to nag, but this one is a pretty critical one, and when fixed > maybe a MDKA update is in place..? > oh well, I'll just continue to run kernel-smp meanwhile, although lesser > ram available:\
