PERC 3/Di - aacraid driver issue on DELL PowerEdge 2650

[Tobias Speckbacher]

Figured I'd make a new thread out of this.
I realize this is the general RH list, but it seems this issue spans
across multiple versions of RH Linux including the now or soon to be
deprecated free versions.

----

For whatever its worth I tested one of my 2650's loaded with ES3
overnight.
The system has the newest kernel available from the errata provided by
Redhat (2.4.21-9EL).

What I did was:

while :; do
dd if=/dev/zero of=test count=3000000
rm -rf test
done


It creates a 1.5GB or thereabout file for me on my system, should you
have a different FS blocksize the size will change.

Anyway the system stayed up all night and still is at it.
I figured if something is wrong with the aacraid driver/IO subsystem I
should see it after a while doing this test.  Now I realize this doesn't
really take care of every case that can happen since this only tests
writes.

If anyone has a better idea on how to test the proper workings of a PERC
3/Di I'd appreciate your input.

-Tobias

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Norman Elton
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:41 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Moving into Linux Enterprise- Doubts/questions

> I used to have an issue with a 2650 running RH8, the system would
> completely hang after a certain amount of time.

This is exactly the issue I had. The system would just hang. It turned 
out to be a buggy aacraid driver (the adaptec RAID driver). I ended up 
getting a kernel patch from Adaptec.

I don't know if this is still an issue with the latest redhat releases, 
I suspect is probably still is. I would check the mailing lists on 
linux.dell.com (there's an aacraid-specific list).

It's a shame that a system that's RedHat certified, running an OS 
that's Dell certified, just doesn't work.

Norman

------------------------------------------------------
Norman Elton
Information Technology - Network Engineering
College of William & Mary
757-221-7790
On Apr 6, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Tobias Speckbacher wrote:

> I used to have an issue with a 2650 running RH8, the system would
> completely hang after a certain amount of time.
>
> Installing an updated kernel, solved this issue for me.
> I am currently in the process of deploying 9 systems with RHES 3.0, 4 
> of
> which use the PERC 3/DI controller.
>
> If anyone has confirmation that this is still an issue I'd appreciate
> the input.
>
> -T
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bob Gorman
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:54 PM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Moving into Linux Enterprise- Doubts/questions
>
>
>> I installed RHEL 3 on a PowerEdge 2650, and had horrible times with 
>> the
> RAID driver. If your server runs the Perc3/Di driver, you'll want to
do
> a little research before plunging into RHEL.
>
> Can you be a little more specific?  I have plans to upgrade some
PE2650
> systems (w/PERC3-DI) to RHEL3 very soon.
>
> Indeed, I will install the latest system BIOS update, and the latest
> controller and back plane firmware updates, and install from the 
> current
> RHEL3 Update 1 CD.
>
> TIA for any insight you can share.
>
>
>
> -- 
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>
>
> -- 
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>


-- 
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list