Problem Description:
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I have a brandnew Tyan Thunder K7x S2469GN SMP motherboard
with a 3Ware Escalade 7800 RAID card, which has a RAID5
array of 7 Western Digital 120Gb [Caviar 1200JB SE MB]
and one hot spare.
Large amount of IO to the array cause the machine to
hangup. Quickly switching to console when I notice
that the machine is about to hang reveals the following
message:
Unit #0: Command (f6f27000) timed out, resetting card
I tried booting with noapic, as was suggested by the
great 3ware support team, but to no avail.
I tried different kernels (self compiled, standard Debian ones),
but nothing seems to help. Probably switching to a UP kernel
would solve the problem, but I would like to make use
of the second CPU too.
Useful Information:
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Some useful info is included in text attachments
(some lines are over 80 charachters so it would
wrap horribly):
The output of lspci -vvvx
The output of cat /proc/interrupts
The output of dmesg
I included these data both for the case where the kernel
was booted with the noapic and without the noapic option.
I also included the .config of the kernel I used
(2.4.21-pre7). Note that plain 2.4.20 fails too.
Call for help :)
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Please CC: me in any reply. I follow lkml through the
online archives, so if you forget to CC, it won't be a
disaster :)
If there is any info lacking in this email, please tell
me so, this is my first problem report on lkml, and probably
I still have a lot to learn in that regard (and then some).
Should I compile in the magic SysReq support and then
try to grab some info out of the kernel when it hangs up ?
Some pointers on how to take this on would be helpful,
I will start by reading in more detail the lkml faq
entries at tux.org.
PCI hangs happened before on this mobo ?:
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I found some other Tyan Thunder K7x related posts on lkml:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.1/0724.html
This one is interesting, cause I think it is also the PCI
bus which hangs in my case, causing the 3Ware card to time out
and then of course the whole system locks up.
Then again I don't use any sound related code in the kernel ...
Thanks for any help provided,
Vincent Touquet
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