SCSI madness

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > This is an official FC3 kernel that i'm currently using on a half dozen
> > other boxes that have SCSI controlelrs (although not a symbios
> > controller).  I'm inclined to think this isn't a SCSI debug issue.
> > Especially when the box is locking up sometimes.
> >
> > And actually, in the past few reboot's, its now Oops-ing and then locking
> > up.  Something is very badly borked somewhere.
>
> Could you take the box down for a few hours to run memory diagnostics?

yea, thankfully its not a production box.

>
> Could also be a power supply issue.
>
> But those aren't necessarily the most likely candidates.

I had considered that it might not be SCSI at all but memory or PSU.  I'll
chuck a memtest86 floppy in there now and see what happens.

5 minutes later...

125 memory errors and counting.

at least i think i found the culprit.  thanks.

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