What kind of hard drives are you using?
I had some trouble getting some IBM drives working with one of our raid
cards. After spending a couple of hours going through the IBM web site
and talking to some helpful people at Mylex I was able to get the drives
working by setting a jumper (I believe it was 'DIS TI SY', but don't quote
me on that, and on a couple of the drives I think it was a jumper that I
had to pull labeld 'TI SY' to disable the feature). Again, if it's an IBM
drive, check the troubleshooting/knowlege base section of their site.
This is just a vague memory of something I did 6 months ago that I didn't
take enough notes on inteded solely to give you something to investigate.
If it either helps you or if anyone knows what the hell I'm talking about,
please explain it so it can help others out. If I'm totally off base, be
kind as it is 3 am and I've been coding in Java on a large distributed
application for the past several weeks and have been very far from
anything even near kernel level for about 6 months (plus I know very
little about low level SCSI). Thanks.
Good luck.
-Theron
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Brandon wrote:
> Wondering if anyone out there has seen or has a fix for this problem...
>
> On doing a mke2fs on /dev/md0 I get:
>
> Kernel panic: Inactive in scsi_request_queueable
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> Which of course completely locks the system. I can reboot and rerun the
> command and get the same results at a different point in the mke2fs run.
> Sometimes I don't get the error.. I just get a complete system lock. No
> numlock key changing the light on the keyboard, etc. Really wierd.
>
> I've tried 3 different motherboards and I've swapped out a few different
> drives on the scsi chain.. I've even tried different SCSI adapters. Here's
> the latest config:
>
> Dual PII 350's.
> 384 MB memory
> Adaptect 2940 UW (Also tried the 2940 U2W)
> 7 hardfiles external, active terminated. (7 * 9 Gig UW drives)
> Redhat 6.1 clean install --> no patches.
> Different raidtab configs.
> All with the same result.
>
> I've also tried:
>
> Dual III 500's
> 256 MB memory
> Adaptec 2940 U2W
> (Same redhat drive and hardfiles from above)
> Different raidtab configs...
>
> The redhat drive is on the chain and is not raided. The other 6 drives are
> what I am trying to raid.
>
> I'm guessing that it is something in the SCSI code somewhere. Although it
> could be something stupid like the SCSI cable, etc. I'm not ruling
> anything out. ANY help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon!
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