On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:01:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have posted this message yesterday but I don't see it on the mailing
> list.
> Sorry for the inconvenience if you see it twice...
>
> Today, I have tested hardware with diag-switch? and diag-level true and
> a serial console. Nothing to declare...
>
> Original message:
>
> Hello,
>
> A, U2 (2 GB, 2 UltraSPARC-II, 2 73 GB SCSI disks [raid1]) is running
> Debian/testing with 2.6.20.3 kernel. This station is used as mail server
> and I have seen some freezes. When it freezes, sysrq or stop+A do not
> work (not panic nor Oops, only freeze).
>
> I have tested 2.6.18 (from debian), 2.6.20.x without any success.
> When I boot with root=/dev/sda4 instead root=/dev/md1, system is
> more stable (but not enough to be a mail server :-( ).
>
> With 2.4 kernel and without raid1 (I don't understand why I
> cannot use my raid1 volumes with 2.4 kernel...), system is
> stable and does not freeze. I have tested hardware with SUNvts
> (from Solaris 9) and it sounds good.
>
> With the _same_ kernel, an U60-SMP is stable. The difference
> between both kernel are only Sbus versus PCI support _and_
> ESP-SCSI version Symbios support. I suspect a bug in the
> ESP-SCSI support but I don't know how investigate. I cannot
> boot any 2.6.20 with debug option du to a "address not
> aligned" message when it boots.
>
> Any suggestion ?
I have tried the last 2.6.21-rc4. Same bug.
JKB
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