All, I have a VA Fullon 2230 2u system that has issues. The system randomly goes into a hard lock (no input, output, or errors in the logs). I can recreate the error by forcing heavy disk I/O ( a large tar job usually does it), but it also does it on it's own for no apparent reason. At first I thought it was because I was using a stock 2.2.16 kernel instead of VA's "enhanced" kernel. Unfortunatly, even after using their kernel, the problem still persisted. I thought it was the SCSI controller, because it's an integrated Adaptec 7896/7 on an Intel L440GX motheroard that isn't fully supported by the stock kernel (VA has enhanced drivers to handle it). But since it happens both with and without disk I/O, I don't think that is the problem anymore. Now I am looking toward the network side. I have an eepro100 (on-board) and a DEC Tulip quad ethernet card. I checked out Donald Becker's website about the eepro, and it says that the eepro100 has a tendency to use the same IRQ as an Adaptec SCSI controller, but I looked in /proc/pci and /proc/interrupts and they aren't confilcting. However, there is an entry in dmesg that says:" eth0: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82557,00:D0:B7:65:CF:16, IRQ 21. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around." Could this be the problem, or is this just normal? Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem could be? I have already ruled out bad hardware because I have a second server that is identical and has the exact same problem. TIA, Kenny PS I've already tried VA support :-( ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
