[CentOS] Centos locking up system with mptscsih driver error

[Paul R. Ganci]

Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:34 -0700, Paul R. Ganci wrote:
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>>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.
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>I have not seen this particular problem ... do you want to try the new
>2.6.9-27.EL kernel that was released as part of EL4-u3beta
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>Also, verify you have the latest BIOS updates from you motherboard.
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Alas, I have the original BIOS installed. I was checking and it does 
appear there are BIOS updates available. I always hate the idea of 
flashing a ROM given the implications of something going wrong. However, 
I was just checking /var/log/dmesg and am seeing things like:

mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs.
mtrr: corrected configuration.

BIOS failed to enable PCI standards compliance, fixing this error.

so perhaps I have a root cause to address.

I may just try the beta kernel anyhow ... if it doesn't work I will be 
able to capture the actual mptscsih error message. :(

-- 
Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)