"Salyzyn, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a processor based RAID card, so stability and complexity is > virtually all rooted in the card. The problems you are experiencing are > most probably specific to your platform, and do not show up in other > adapters and systems that communicate with this same driver. Although > the driver can be used to mitigate some problems in the adapter > Firmware, it can not solve Power Supply, Hardware, Internal Firmware > Failures, Drive or Cabling issues. All these issues need to be resolved > first by communicating with Dell Technical Support. > > Sadly, all these issues can end up locking up the card or the scsi bus. > The end result being the scsi system timing out, taking the devices > offline, then the file-system driver panicking. Similar symptoms, wide > variety of causes.
The machine I am having trouble with has been running MS Windows for 2 years. I just put linux on it (with no other changes) and we get regular (twice daily) catastrophic crashes. Can this be a controller problem? I'm not a hardware expert but it doesn't sound like one to me. Nic - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
