From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266290AbUGAVd5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:33:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266293AbUGAVd5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:33:57 -0400 Received: from postal.ivytech.edu ([168.91.14.3]:39808 "EHLO mail.ivytech.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266290AbUGAVdy (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:33:54 -0400 Message-ID: <35545.10.0.15.208.1088717634.squirrel@mail.ivytech.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:33:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: 2.6.x, megaraid, new driver version? From: "John Madden" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) 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 In the process of eagerly moving my machines to the 2.6 series, I've run across some intermittent issues with the built-in megaraid2 driver. Machines (Dell 2450's with PERC-3's and 1750's with PERC-4Di's) are hanging with messages like: megaraid: ABORTING- 345c5 cmd=2a megaraid: ABORTING- 345c5[47] fw owner. ...generally under I/O stress. I see that the driver version is v2.00.3, released in Feb 2003 and that the later 2.4.x kernels ship with much newer drivers. Since I'm having no trouble with the 1.1x driver on the machines that are still 2.4.x-based, I have to either roll my boxen back to 2.4.26 or stick it out with 2.6.7 and hope it turns out to be a good day. I found in the archives mention of a "unified driver" and I'm assuming that's referring to a single driver between both kernel trees, but I saw no mention of a tentative release date, what version of the driver that's to be based on, etc. So I'm looking for suggestions -- what do I do driver-wise, how can I keep them running on 2.6.x if possible, how soon before there's a unified driver release in the mainline kernel, etc.? Thanks, John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech State College jmadden@ivytech.edu