SCSI Problems

[Doug Ledford]

Cristian Deacu wrote:
> 
> Drew Bloechl wrote:
> >
> > I get the exact same problem.  SuperMicro PIIIDME (uses Intel 840
> > chipset), Adaptec 29160 (64-bit), with a Seagate Cheetah 36G U160 10K
> > RPM drive on the LVD segment.  On the SE segment is a Plextor PX-40TS
> > and a Yamaha CDRW (I forget the exact model number.)
> >
> > Kernel is 2.2.15 patched up to 5.1.29.
> 
> Do you also receive "news kernel: unexpected IRQ vector 217 on CPU#0!" ?

I don't know if the other person is seeing this, but in your case this is a
clear indicator of a non-aic7xxx related problem with IRQ delivery (and is
actually likely a hardware IOAPIC issue).

> So it seems that this configuration is getting problems on Linux. Before
> having SCSI I had 4 IDE on 2 Promise PCI Ultra ATA66 controllers and I
> also had problems.
> 
> OK! Does anybody have a solution or I have to change the motherboard.
> My server  is a news server (very loaded) so I need a very stable
> configuration. I need some suggestions for the motherboard because I
> don't want to have problems again.
> 
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