Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263472AbUCYSBN (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:01:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263479AbUCYSBN (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:01:13 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:12724 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263472AbUCYSBI (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:01:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:01:06 -0800 From: cliff white To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: OSDL: STP hardware uprev Message-Id: <20040325100106.235054a7.cliffw@osdl.org> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1672 Lines: 53 We've (finally) uprev'd all the 4 and 8 CPU machines with newer, great SCSI RAID controllers. ( For some range of 'great' ) http://www.osdl.org/lab_activities/kernel_testing/stp/ The new cards are Adaptec 2200S SCSI RAID, and we now have true 64 bit PAE support. No more bounce buffers! However, IO tests run post 3/23/04 will not be comparable to tests run before, due to the hardware change. Please, run a bunch of STP tests, and complain. More Details: 64MB Cache ( not battery-backed ) firmware version V4.0 ( Build 6011) 2 each in the 4-cpu machines, 4 in the 8-cpu machines Drive cache is set to write-through on all drives. 4-way dmesg: AAC0: kernel 4.0.4 build 6011 AAC0: monitor 4.0.4 build 6011 AAC0: bios 4.0.0 build 6011 AAC0: serial 0ba60f4 aacraid: NMI ISR: NMI_PRIMARY_ATU_ERROR AAC1: kernel 4.0.4 build 6011 AAC1: monitor 4.0.4 build 6011 AAC1: bios 4.0.0 build 6011 AAC1: serial 0ba6120 aacraid: NMI ISR: NMI_PRIMARY_ATU_ERROR This makes us happy: Mar 25 07:35:52 stp8-000 kernel: AAC0: 64 Bit PAE enabled Mar 25 07:35:53 stp8-000 kernel: AAC1: 64 Bit PAE enabled Mar 25 07:35:54 stp8-000 kernel: AAC2: 64 Bit PAE enabled Mar 25 07:35:56 stp8-000 kernel: AAC3: 64 Bit PAE enabled --------------- Thanks and praise to Our Own Russell Evans, for doing the speedy install. cliffw -- The church is near, but the road is icy. The bar is far, but i will walk carefully. - Russian proverb - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/