[CentOS] Centos locking up system with mptscsih driver error

[Johnny Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:34 -0700, Paul R. Ganci wrote:
> 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.
> 
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

Also, verify you have the latest BIOS updates from you motherboard.
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