At 14:01 24-5-2001 +1000, Chris Pascoe wrote:
Hi,
I'm running the XFS stress tests on a Dell Poweredge 4400 running. The
kernel is the current CVS one (as at today) but the problem persists over
several weeks of compilations. Local modifications to the kernel are the
addition of the module for the AACRAID Perc 3/Di RAID controller and the
e1000 driver from Intel for the ethernet card. Highmem support is enabled
(the machine has 1GB of RAM). The kernels are compiled with the kgcc
package from Redhat 7.0 (egcs
2.91.66) or the RH7.1 gcc (2.96-81) - it makes no difference.
We have 2 Dell Poweredge 2450 machines that came with the Adaptec Raid
controller and have replaced those controllers with AMI megaraid
controllers instead.
Contact your local dell contact for a refund when purchasing the other
controllers.
The driver for the Adaptec controllers is a port of the NT driver to
solaris 8 to Linux.
IMNHO the adaptec controller is OK but drivers are _NOT_ and should thus be
avoided.
The drivers worked OK on 2.2 kernels but the 2.4 port is still in it's infants.
I can't speak for the Intel e1000 drivers but I thought those were OK.
Cheers
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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