From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265437AbTLKUeS (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:34:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265462AbTLKUeR (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:34:17 -0500 Received: from madness.at ([213.153.61.104]:29707 "EHLO cronos.madness.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265437AbTLKUeO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:34:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD8D4D3.5010609@madness.at> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:34:27 +0100 From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031028 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nelsonis@earthlink.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Any known issues with MPT SCSI? References: <3FD73C61.80708@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3FD73C61.80708@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ian S. Nelson wrote: > I'm running some Dell 1750s with a moderately customized 2.4.20 kernel, > it has a couple of newer drivers but it's fairly standard. I have 3 > identical systems that are turning up ext3 corruption fairly regularly. > They are using the MPT/53c1030 SCSI. 2 of the 3 reported log corruption > on a boot and mounted the root filesystem in read only. The other is > spitting FWIW: we have more than a dozen of IBM x335/345 maschines using this controller (using 2.4.22 and 2.4.23), and most of these server do have _significant_ IO-Load at times . Whe have not yet encountered anything near a corrupted filesystem although the controllers itself do "feel" quite slow. Stefan