On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 02:39:43AM -0800, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:48:15PM -0800, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> >
> >>I'm starting to suspect bad hardware. Booting is now hanging (with
> >>2.4.27, 2.4.30 and 2.4.32) after scsi drivers load:
> >
> >And nothing changed since previous boot, except UP ?
>
> All I changed was adding nosmp to the kernel boot line.
OK maybe interrupts don't get distributed to the remaining CPU, which
would explain your timeouts.
> >It's not necessarily bad hardware. I also had trouble on one version of
> >the 29160 bios where it hanged during device scan if there were too many
> >terminations. Oh, BTW, please check that you have disabled "automatic"
> >termination in the BIOS. Manually set it either to ON or OFF (low/high
> >depending on your setup).
>
> I'll have to check it tomorrow or on Monday.
>
> >>How likely is it that a failing scsi controller contribute to the other
> >>problems I was seeing?
> >
> >Not much. Perhaps at worst, a failing controller could corrupt memory by
> >writing garbage at wrong locations, but you would not always get the
> >same messages. It seems to be a different problem here. To be honnest,
> >it's where I think you should try the new driver.
>
> The machine has been running 2.6.14.4 for the last 6 hours. It came up
> fine. I did not try booting it with nosmp. If I have time, I will
> revert back to 2.4 with the newer driver to test.
Thanks.
> -Chris
Willy
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