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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:45:33 +0200
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Subject: Re: 3ware 9500 ("3w-9xxx") w/ dual Opteron (Tyan 2885)
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Hi Ed,

can You provide more infos on the oops You encountered.

ciao
andi


Ed Hill wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Has anyone managed to get a 3ware 9500-series RAID controller working
> stably on an SMP Opteron system?  Especially with a Tyan 2885 MB?  If
> so, would you be willing to share your kernel configuration info?
> 
> I'm trying to get a 3ware 9500 8-port card working on a Tyan 2885
> motherboard (dual Opterons) and have been experiencing numerous oopses:
> 
>   - 2.6.[78] w/ the included 3w-9xxx driver and ext3 FS:
>     Results in kernel oops after 1--2 hours of writing to the 
>     RAID array (happened four times).  The oops appears to be 
>     in ext3.
> 
>   - 2.6.8.1 w/ latest 3w-9xxx driver from 3ware and XFS FS:
>     Results in "Bad page state at prep_new_page" kernel errors
> 
> When not using the 3ware RAID array (that is, the array is mounted but
> no reads or writes are done to it), the machine is very stable--even
> under heavy CPU loads and lots of IO to local (non-RAID) IDE drives.
> 
> Any help/suggestions appreciated!
> 
> Ed
> 

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