LP2000, netraid 2m, RedHat 7.1, updated, crashing.

[Fred Skrotzki]

ok I know about the modified (and out of date) drivers for the megaraid driver. What HP called 1.15HP. This was branched from the code at 1.14l while main development progressed on for many more rev's of 1.14 (p)then the REAL 1.15 (a-d), and 1.16. Finaly the HP changes were re-integrated in to what was labeled 1.17 and then progressed to 1.18 for the driver.

We build the box as follows:

Install Redhat 7.1, Run up2date -u --force to get all updates and upgrade the kernel to 2.4.9-31. This contains the driver 1.18 greater then the 1.15hp driver. we've had scsi timeout problems with this version. so loaded the older 1.15HP driver over the released one. Still have the same issues. Took the latest kernel 2.4.18 compiled that and have same issues. Took the source for HP's 1.15hp and replaced the driver provided by 2.4.18 with the HP Provided source code from Disk 2. Compiled the kernel with the megaraid/HP driver BUILT IN so it doesn't need the module or to do initrd, it still doesn't work.

The server will run for 12-36 hours before we get errors and cause the kernel to panic.

Now I said the server was under extream load.

it's configured as follows: 2 gig ram, in raid we have 6 18 gig 15K rpm drives (one disk for OS with the other 5 in a raid 0 for SPEED).

This server needs to send 8-20 million messages a day and receive around 1 million via postfix as it's the sending interface to a mailing list server for some large lists.

With the HP driver compiled into the kernel there should NOT be any module load issues.

Anybody have any ideas? The HP driver doesn't cut it, the driver for version 1.18 doesn't cut it either.

We have enough of these cards and systems that I was thinking of flashing one of them with the code that works from a Megaraid 1600 (which is what this card is but under HP's name) thus removing the buggy HP 64 bit code issue. Besides voilating the warrenty anybody see a potential problem in doing this to get it to work?

[Fred Skrotzki]

Sorry one quick correction. Ment AMI/LSI Megaraid Elite 1600 NOT Enterprise 1600.