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Bug 111887

Summary: SMP Kernel crashes using ICP or Intel RAID controllers
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Andreas Aretz <andreas.aretz>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: petrides, riel
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Description Andreas Aretz 2003-12-11 09:03:42 UTC
Description of problem:
Using Intel SMP-Server systems (Intel SE7501BR2 or Intel SE7501HG2 
for example ) with an Intel or ICP RAID controller installed , the 
kernel crashes during reboot, shutdown or
executing 'cat/proc/scsi/gdth/0' !
Similar issue have been described in Bugzilla entries 
(#64778,66867,67145,76623) for legacy RH Linux products too !!!!


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21-4.ELsmp


How reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install RHEL 3 AS, boot and reboot the system via shutdown -r now
2.Install RHEL 3 AS, boot and shutdown the system
3.Execute cat /proc/scsi/gdth/0
  
Actual results:
Rebooting or shutting down the system let the system crash.
Last message : 'GDT: Flushing all host drives .. Starting timer : 0 0'
Executing 'cat /proc/scsi/gdth/0 (or ../1) crashes the system too !


Expected results:
No crash during reboot or shut down.
No crash executing /cat/proc/scsh/gdth/0 ( or ../1)


Additional info:
Similar issues have been described in Bugzilla (#64778,66867,67145,) 
for legacy RH Linux products too !!!!

Comment 1 Doug Ledford 2003-12-12 17:11:44 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104520 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:00:22 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.