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From: ADH <swing@adminsend.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3ware 9500 ("3w-9xxx") w/ dual Opteron (Tyan 2885)
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:45:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4142BB2D.50907@adminsend.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2CdNY-57s-9@gated-at.bofh.it>

Hi Ed,

can You provide more infos on the oops You encountered.

ciao
andi


Ed Hill wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Has anyone managed to get a 3ware 9500-series RAID controller working
> stably on an SMP Opteron system?  Especially with a Tyan 2885 MB?  If
> so, would you be willing to share your kernel configuration info?
> 
> I'm trying to get a 3ware 9500 8-port card working on a Tyan 2885
> motherboard (dual Opterons) and have been experiencing numerous oopses:
> 
>   - 2.6.[78] w/ the included 3w-9xxx driver and ext3 FS:
>     Results in kernel oops after 1--2 hours of writing to the 
>     RAID array (happened four times).  The oops appears to be 
>     in ext3.
> 
>   - 2.6.8.1 w/ latest 3w-9xxx driver from 3ware and XFS FS:
>     Results in "Bad page state at prep_new_page" kernel errors
> 
> When not using the 3ware RAID array (that is, the array is mounted but
> no reads or writes are done to it), the machine is very stable--even
> under heavy CPU loads and lots of IO to local (non-RAID) IDE drives.
> 
> Any help/suggestions appreciated!
> 
> Ed
> 


       reply	other threads:[~2004-09-11  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2CdNY-57s-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-11  8:45 ` ADH [this message]
     [not found] ` <2ENNk-1Dl-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <2ENNk-1Dl-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-16  9:28     ` 3ware 9500 ("3w-9xxx") w/ dual Opteron (Tyan 2885) Andreas Huemmer
2004-09-08 16:40 Ed Hill
     [not found] ` <200409082001.20831.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-09-15 19:29   ` Ed Hill

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