[parisc-linux] SCSI (?) bug

[Thibaut VARENE]

On 1/6/07, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at steeleye.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:22 +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> > So the scsi bug that struck Jeff, Kyle and myself on A500 eventually
> > killed my rp3440. Here's the console dump:
>
> > http://www.pateam.org/archive/dumps/scsibug.txt
>
> The log isn't really helpful ... what ever caused this occurred just
> prior to the first line (if it's captured in the log at all).

There was nothing prior to the first line (except the last normal
dmesg output from boot time)

> > It basically renders SMP boxes useless. The last unaffected kernel was
> > 2.6.18-rc1-pa3.
>
> The symptoms make it appear like a lost interrupt but there are many
> other possibilities.

OK, thanks for the hint. It doesn't happen at all on UP machines, afaict.

T-Bone

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