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. -- Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)