crash while dumping on SCSI tapes

Bernard Paris (Bernard.Paris@psp.ucl.ac.be)
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:59:37 +0200


Hi from Belgium,

I encounter several severe server crashes, mostly while dumping on
SCSI tapes (HP DAT and HP DLT). This appear on 3 similar machines
(that excludes hardware problem). Crash is severe because when they
occur, the system is completely frozen, with a black console. No
error message. I just need to switch off then on.
I never have had this problem when I was previously running 2.0.36
kernel on same hardware.

- all disks are SCSI
- SCSI card Adaptec 2940UW
- processor is AMD K6-266 MHz
- for 1 year now, I've been using several 2.4.x kernel versions (-> 2.17)
- last I've last tried kernel 2.17 patched with
"linux-aic7xxx-6.2.5-2.4.17.patch"
(cf. http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/)
- glibc 2.2.2-10, X is not running

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