Re: Adaptec drivers causing problem in RHL 8.0

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 10:27:23 EST


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:20:13AM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > I recently installed RHL 8.0 on a SGI1200 server. The server has
> > "Adaptec AIC-7896 SCSI BIOS v2.20S1B1" installed.

> Those messages point to an interrupt routing problem. The driver is
> not able to see interrupts from the chip, so timeouts occur. Have
> you tries some of the various "apic/noapic" kernel options to see if
> your interrupt routing improves? Often switching between UP and
> SMP kernels will change how interrupt routing is performed too.

Indeed, these are good avenues to poke.

FWIW, on Red Hat UP kernels, the "local IO-APIC" option is not even
compiled in.

        Jeff

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Feb 23 2003 - 22:00:29 EST