On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:45:06PM -0800, Robert Rusek wrote:
> I am running Kernel 2.4.3 on an SGI Indy (IP22). I built the RedHat 7.1
> system from the NFS root obtained from ftp.mips.com. Everything seems to
> be working until I added an additional drive. Now when I do an heavy IO
> operation on the additional drive my system locks up. It seems like
> there is not enough buffer allocated somewhere. I know that the drive is
> not an issue since when I boot the system up under IRIX 5.3 all works
> well.. Has anyone had a similar problem? Where should I look? Is is
> an Kernel issue or a setting in the OS?
Its a know bug in the scsi drivers. Its been fixed since 2.4.16. Its a
problem with scattered DMA etc.
Flo
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