[rhn-users] New RHEL-AS-4

[nathan r. hruby]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Geoff Sweet wrote:

> I am going to have to assume that there must be bigger problems with the
> aic79xx driver.  We are still waiting for a kernel fix that resolves a
> kernel panic that occurs on our Dell servers.  It occurs when this
> driver loads.  So far RH tech support can only tell us to build a custom
> ram image using older drivers and wait for the next kernel release.  So
> far 2 kernel releases have not resolved the issue (granted one of them
> was a very minor release).  If there are going to continue to be
> unexplainable issues with this driver, I am going to have to re-think
> using RH.
>
> What kills me, and no one can answer me this; two machines with
> identical images (via ghost), one will have the kernel panic, the other
> won't.  It is very inconsistent.
>

Panic in the aacraid driver?  Similar things appeared in rhel3 with
aacraid based cards at certain builds of the firmware.

-n
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