Re: 2.4 and aacraid dmesg

Re: 2.4 and aacraid dmesg

[Gabor Z. Papp]

* "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>:

| The message is coming from the PCI subsystem. Yes it is triggered by the
| pending driver load and requesting card pci resources, but such messages
| are usually a result of issues with the Motherboard BIOS or Hardware.

The system is working fine, stable, without errors. I was just
courious about this kernel msg flood.

| on PCI address 03:0d.0 and 03:09.0 are sharing IRQ 4. The 'info' message
| is printed every time the pcibios_enable_device() call is made. The
| interrupt sharing is assigned by the Motherboard BIOS and if you have
| subsequent problems with the operation of the card(s) or the system, you
| should investigate updating the Motherboard BIOS or go into the
| motherboard BIOS setup and see if you can reassign the PCI (IRQ)
| resources.

Okay. The other device at 03:09.0 is a:

Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)

| The spurious 8259A interrupt message *may* be viewed as a problem.

I'm getting this sh*t from 2.4.18 or so... I think its another story.

Anyway, I love this 2120S, boots quite slooowly, but works fine and
stable.

Ah, the chip is *very* *very* *very* hot on the card, is that normal?

RE: 2.4 and aacraid dmesg

[Salyzyn, Mark]

From: Gabor Z. Papp [mailto:gzp@papp.hu] writes:

>| on PCI address 03:0d.0 and 03:09.0 are sharing IRQ 4. The 'info'
message
>| is printed every time the pcibios_enable_device() call is made. The
>| interrupt sharing is assigned by the Motherboard BIOS and if you have
>| subsequent problems with the operation of the card(s) or the system,
you
>| should investigate updating the Motherboard BIOS or go into the
>| motherboard BIOS setup and see if you can reassign the PCI (IRQ)
>| resources.
>Okay. The other device at 03:09.0 is a:
>
>Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)

Do you really need the audio card? :-) I'd toss (or disable) the audio
system in a heart beat just to remove the annoyance of the messages.

> Anyway, I love this 2120S, boots quite slooowly, but works fine and
stable.

Do keep the F/W up-to-date if you should run into problems. The driver
is thin for this card, most stability issues center around targets,
target compatibility & Hardware (some issues can even trace to Power
Supply problems).

The 2200S is more than four times as fast (when stressed to the
maximum), the 2120S was meant for 'budget' scenarios with feature
completeness in mind.

> Ah, the chip is *very* *very* *very* hot on the card, is that normal?

I can put my hand on the CPU and keep it there with only a smidgen of
concern and nary a sizzling sound. I would worry if you could cook eggs
on it. Do you have a means to measure the actual temperature to add some
objectivism? If so, I'd compare it to the chip's (clearly marked, can be
substituted) specification maximums if you want to get more comfortable
with it.

-- Mark Salyzyn

Re: 2.4 and aacraid dmesg

[Gabor Z. Papp]

* "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>:

| >Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
| 
| Do you really need the audio card? :-) I'd toss (or disable) the audio
| system in a heart beat just to remove the annoyance of the messages.

ehaehaeh. Well, its not an enterprise server. I just prefer hw raid
over sw. The cheapest scsi hw raid card was this model, thats why I
bought to server me. Running with 2 Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 in raid1.

| Do keep the F/W up-to-date if you should run into problems.

Thanks for the hint.

| The 2200S is more than four times as fast (when stressed to the
| maximum), the 2120S was meant for 'budget' scenarios with feature
| completeness in mind.

Ideal for home usage. ;-)

| > Ah, the chip is *very* *very* *very* hot on the card, is that normal?
| 
| I can put my hand on the CPU and keep it there with only a smidgen of
| concern and nary a sizzling sound. I would worry if you could cook eggs
| on it.

I can!

| Do you have a means to measure the actual temperature to add some
| objectivism?

Well, the mobo temp is around 47C, and I bet the chip is over 60.
I can't touch it. I was thinking about installing a mini fan on the
heatsink. Oh, about the heatsink, I see its something like a
"tuning", or a homebrew work. I think adaptec put the heatsink on the
chip after they discovered the cooling problem. But I can be wrong.