[CentOS] Centos locking up system with mptscsih driver error

Paul R. Ganci

ganci at nurdog.com
Wed Jan 4 01:34:46 UTC 2006


I have a Tyan Tiger S2466 MPX motherboard with Dual Atlon MP 2800+ CPUs 
and 1GB PC2100 DDR SDRAM. For disk drive I have an LSI53C1030 and 4 
Seagate ST336607LWs in a software raid 5 configuration. I installed 
Centos 4.1 and everything was fine running kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL. 
However when I upated to Centos 4.2 I have run into problems. Namely 
after a finite amount of disk traffic the system locks completely up. On 
the monitor console I get message after message from the MPT Fusion SCSI 
driver mptscsih indicating that there was a failure and that an "ABORT 
was successful". Unfortunately I don't have the exact message, but I 
have tracked the problem to kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL. Since I updated 
from 4.1 I still had the smp-2.6.9-11 kernel around and as long as I 
boot into kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL with all other 4.2 updates installed 
everything is stable. I can reliably get the mptscsih driver to fail 
after a few minutes of system uptime (or shorter time if doing disk 
writes) when booted into kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.

I checked the Centos archives and did not find anything related to this 
SCSI card or motherboard. Now before I get lambasted for not having the 
exact SCSI error message (yes I am willing boot into 
kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL despite that my raid partition has to be 
rebuilt afterwards) to get the message. I was wondering if anyone else 
has had problems with this hardware/driver and/or 
kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL. If this is a new mptscsih problem I will 
post more details of my system but I thought I would start with just a 
general question in case I missed something.

-- 
Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)




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