Alan Cox wrote:
>
> You'll find no vendor ships 2.0.x SMP kernels. Prior to the interrupt
> re-entry fix in 2.0.36 final (which predates pretty much all the vendors
> last 2.0 based trees) 2.0.* was not sufficiently stable SMP for all uses. You
> needed the right drivers you needed the right options.
>
> Thats my opinion. but then I'm only to 2.0 tree maintainer 8)
And, let's not forget that until about 2 months ago here internally we
could take down any 2.0 SMP system with aic7xxx hardware simply by
putting a BusLogic next to the aic7xxx driver and using both in
parallel. It wasn't until my 5.1.12 driver that this one was fixed and
this was a disk corrupting, file system eating problem. It's hard for
us to think something is supportable when we have that kind of problem
with it. The fact that Robert doesn't see this on the Dell 2300
machines he has is because A) the PowerEdge 2300 machines are actually
very nice, well done hardware and B) he's using exclusively aic7xxx
hardware. Just don't ever mix another SCSI controller in one of those
system Robert or you'll be hosing your filesystems.
--
Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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