Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 23:43 -0700, Paul R. Ganci wrote:
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Nearly all BIOS updates fix these issues in my experience.
I find it hard to believe that flashing the BIOS to v4.06 is going to fix the mptscsi problem.
Don't find it hard to believe ... try flashing the BIOS ... :) I have had problems like this many, many, many times.
They add lots of things besides what they list in BIOS ugrades.
It might not fix it (I have no experience with this SPECIFIC board) but that is always the first thing I check.
Okay Johnny and Bryan, you made a believer out of me. I flashed the Tyan motherboard (S2466N-4M) BIOS to version V4.06, and the LSI SCSI card (LSI53C1030) BIOS/firmware to version 5.11.01 respectively found on theTyan and LSI Logic web sites. So far the initial result is good ... after 8 hours the system is up happily chugging along:
uptime
08:15:32 up 8:10, 4 users, load average: 0.56, 0.31, 0.27
uname -r
2.6.9-27.ELsmp
This system typically dies within the first 5 minutes running this kernel. It has lasted for as long as ~30 minutes if limited disk writes are attempted but has never remained stable for 8 hours. Thanks for "forcing" me to update the BIOS/firmware as this action so far seems to have provided the cure.