Klaus Naumann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Compaq DL360 here and a Qlogic FC card in it.
> When I'm trying to boot the machine it will find the
> card, and also find the RAID which is connected.
> But then it seems to stop. If I then unplug the FC cable
> it says that the link is down (which is correct for sure).
> If I then replug the cable it will do a Loop ReInit and then proceed
> to boot as it should (except that it can't read the partition
> table). Anyway, I have enabled some debugging and found,
> that it's going through a loop where it does something
> for all possible FC devices. It's doing the same loop when I unplug
> the FC cable it seems. With one difference - it's doing this
> VERY slow. So it's looking like the machine hangs while
> it's probably just very slowly going throgh this loop.
> I suspect that this is a problem with SMP machines because
> I have used the driver before in non-SMP machines with
> good success.
Klaus,
I had trouble with the NMI watchdog timer going off on
my SMP machine during adapter card initialization and
SCSI bus resets. A temporary (kludge) solution was to
turn off the NMI watchdog with the kernel boot option:
nmi_watchdog=0
Hopefully better solutions are coming ...
Doug Gilbert
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