Danilo Godec
2008-Jan-05 15:49 UTC
[Xen-users] OpenSUSE 10.3, Xen 3.1.0 and aic79xx on x86_64 - trouble...
Hi, I''m having ''a little'' trouble with the above mentioned combination - the system freezes completely when I''m using hard drives connected to the aic79xx controller. Now if I boot the non-xen kernel, the system seems OK and runs fine - I can do all kinds of stuff with SCSI drives - like creating a software RAID1, making an ext3 filesystem on it, rsync-ing a bunch of files over a network, running bonnie++ - it just works. But when I boot xen and the xen kernel, the system runs fine as long as I don''t actually use SCSI drives (for testing purpose I added a SATA drive for the OS). T he driver loads OK, it finds and reports SCSI drives and all seems to be ''well''. But when I use SCSI drives, such as activating and resyncing the RAID1 (created before) or if I try to create a filesystem on one of the SCSI disks - the system will freeze solid. It doesn''t always happen at the same ''stage'' - sometimes it freezes as soon as I run ''raidautorun'', sometimes I can start the RAID1 array, even mount it and try running bonnie++ - but it eventually freezes anyway. It doesn''t tell any errors, it doesn''t accept any keystrokes - the only thing I can do is power-cycle the server (which BTW is an IBM xSeries 226 - 8488-3DG with two Xeon 3GHz processors, 2GB RAM QLA2340 FC adapter, updated to -AFAIK- latest BIOS and firmware - nope, it has no VT). The server has been in use for a year or so and has been working OK. The motherboard has been replaced once as it died completely, but there was nothing (else) leading me to suspect another hardware failure. I was Google-ing around and only related discussions date back to 2005 and xen-2.x.x. The AIC79XX in non-Xen environment seems to be as stable as it gets - discussions about aic79xx problem date back to 2004 or earlier. Has anyone any idea what I can do to make this work (short of using a different server)? Any ''undocumented'' or not-so-obvious xen boot options? Maybe aic79xx driver options? Anything? Thanks, Danilo _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users