Re: Fatal problem, possibly related to AIC79xx

[Antonin Kral <A.Kral@sh.cvut.cz>]

I've run memtest for more than 48 hours. And actually I have two boxes
with same behaviour. I was thinking about more precise check of SCSI bus
termination...

Regards,
    Antonin

* Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> [2004-07-11 22:23] wrote:
> Looks like a hardware problem to me. Perhaps higher transfer rates obtained
> with aic7xxx triggers it faster. You should really run cpuburn (burnBX) and
> memtest86 on this box.
> 
> Regards,
> Willy
> 
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:21:25PM +0200, Antonin Kral wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to install Linux (in particular Debian) to our new servers.
> > These servers are based od motherbard SuperMicro X5DL8-GG with aic7902
> > without RAID, 1GB RAM, one XEON 3.06GHz
> > 
> > I have two, really strange problems, first of all I have noticed, that
> > with enabled SMP support kernel detects TWO processors, but only one is
> > physically installed.
> > 
> > The second problem is, that I am not able to run almost any program.
> > E.g. if I try to execute free I'll get "Illegal instruction", for mount
> > I'll get "Segmentation Fault".
> > 
> > What I've tried:
> > 
> >   Vanilla kernels 2.4.25, 2.4.26, 2.6.6, 2.6.7. And almost all
> > combinations with/without:
> >           * SMP
> >           * APIC
> >           * Highmem
> >           * MTRR
> > 
> > All without ACPI and with aic79xx and e1000 build in kernel.
> > 
> >   I've tried Knoppix 3.4. The strange think was that I was unable to
> > load module for aic79xx, because of "no such device".
> > 
> > Does anyone have any idea how to solve my problems?
> > 
> >   Thank you, best regards,
> > 
> >         Antonin Kral
> > 
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