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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060103/5b03a622/attachment-0005.sig>