The I/O patterns are just not the same. Windoze typically can't even approach more than 32 commands outstanding to the controller. And only recently has the Cache bug been solved in the ROMB Firmware.
Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -----Original Message----- From: Nic Ferrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:32 PM To: Salyzyn, Mark Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: aacraid died on kernel 2.4.27 "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
