On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 06:12 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 23:43 -0700, Paul R. Ganci wrote: > > Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > > > >"Paul R. Ganci" <ganci at nurdog.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Alas, I have the original BIOS installed. I was checking > > >>and it does appear there are BIOS updates available. > > >> > > >Actually, the overwhelming majority of PowerNow/Cool'n Quiet > > >issues I've seen are due to inappropriate APIC/ACPI/POST > > >setup by the BIOS. Nearly all BIOS updates fix these issues > > >in my experience. > > > > > Well I did more research and have to clarify my statement. The installed > > BIOS is v4.05 which indeed was the original BIOS is actually only one > > version below the last BIOS provided by Tyan for the Tiger MPX > > (S2466N-4M). The new features and fixes for v4.06 are: > > > > Fixes bios resetting during reboot issue. > > Fixes hang on shutdown issue when no keyboard is present. > > > > I find it hard to believe that flashing the BIOS to v4.06 is going to > > fix the mptscsi problem. > > > > I did install 2.6.9-27.ELsmp. This kernel has the same problem as the > > 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp. The actual error messages look like: > > > > MPTSCSI: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=f24891c0) > > SCSI: destination target 1, lun 0 > > command = Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 > > MPTSCSI: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=f24891c0) > > > > These messages scroll up the monitor with the target drive and sc > > address changing. This system is only stable if I run 2.6.9-11.ELsmp. > > Unfortunately I don't find any other information in the log file related > > to the SCSI errrors indicated above ... the system clearly can't write > > to the drives and the raid5 array is corrupted. Again I find it hard to > > believe that the BIOS can be responsible since the system is so stable > > using kernel 2.6.9-11.ELsmp. > > > > I have placed the latest dmesg log, an excerpt of the messages log and > > my grub.conf in http://www.nurdog.com/~ganci/crash/dmesg, > > http://www.nurdog.com/~ganci/crash/messages and > > http://www.nurdog.com/~ganci/crash/grub.conf respectively, in case > > someone would like to take a look. I would really like to get to the > > root of this problem and will be happy to provide any other information > > for anyone willing to help me debug this problem. In the meantime I will > > just run with 2.6.9-11.ELsmp. > > 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. I am using that same driver on a slightly different SCSI controller ... scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs With no major issues at all. -------------- 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/20060105/8b8fa6e3/attachment-0005.sig>