Bug 63514 - Installer hangs when loading aix7xxx 6.2.1 on hyper threading system with more the 6 GB RAM
Summary: Installer hangs when loading aix7xxx 6.2.1 on hyper threading system with mor...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Doug Ledford
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-15 10:48 UTC by Ernst-Heinrich Klaas
Modified: 2008-08-01 16:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-30 15:39:30 UTC
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Description Ernst-Heinrich Klaas 2002-04-15 10:48:25 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
For new systems with "jackson technologie" (hyper threading) the 
Red Hat errata-kernel 2.4.9-31 is necessary.
This RHSA includes the driver aic7xxx vers 6.2.1, which causes 
problems with more than 6 GB RAM like 
  "INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes"  
  or standstill after "Setting Hostname".
This problem did not occure with driver aic7xxx vers 6.2.4.
  
Fujitsu Siemens Computers recommend to integrate the driver
aic7xxx vers 6.2.4 into the next errata update.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install ( http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html ) on a dual 
CPU hyper threading system with more the 6 GB RAM
2. Reboot 
3.
	

Actual Results:  Messages like "INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast : disabled for 5 
minutes" or standstill after "Setting Hostname".

Expected Results:  Normal boot 
( driver aic7xxx vers. 6.2.4 works fine ) 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-04-15 10:52:38 UTC
The default aic7xxx used by RHL 7.1 and 7.2 is 5.2.5
Is there a reason Fujitsu Siemens Computers modifies the default ?

Comment 2 Ernst-Heinrich Klaas 2002-04-16 10:35:44 UTC
The driver aic7xxx 5.2.x does not analyse the AIC configspace information 
regarding termination power or unused channel. This causes different scsi-
timeout errors.
( Adaptec recommends the driver aic7xxx 6.2.4 on its WEB page. )


Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2002-04-16 10:38:39 UTC
until 6.2.6 the driver didn't work on several series of cards (esp Dell
machines) though

Comment 4 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:30 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/



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