About half of the drives on the chain are IBM drives. I don't see that
jumper on the drives, all I see are the standard SCSI ones: IDs, Term, LED,
Spin Delay, etc.
I'll look on their site and see what I can find. I wouldn't expect a drive
to halt the kernel though. Who knows....
Anyone else got suggestions?
>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
>
>--
>
>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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>>
>>
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