Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (470 mails)

[wally grotophorst <wallyg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am having a problem with an Apple Xserve RAID box connected to my 
recently build SuSE AMD64 server. Basically, i got the latest (SuSE 8.x) 
x86_64 driver for the Apple FiberChannel Card (actually made by 
LSIlogic) and installed that...i'm running SuSE 9.0 w/ update CD so I 
can use the SATA drive.

System Details: Tyan 2885, dual 242 Opterons, 4GB RAM
Kernel:  2.4.21-215-smp #1 SMP Tue Apr 27 16:26:32 UTC 2004 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Here's what my array looks like to SuSE:

Disk /dev/sdb1: 752.9 GB, 752983225344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91544 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes


System works, I was able to create a 700GB RAID 5 slice, make a 700GB 
file system and then copy about 30 Gigs to it.  Then later when making a 
copy of that 30Gb to another directory on the same drive, I started 
getting system hang with this message in /var/log/messages:


May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: divide error: 0000
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: CPU 1 
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: Pid: 432, comm: kjournald Not tainted
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: RIP: 0010:[ll_rw_block+93/464]{ll_rw_block+93}
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8021129d>]{ll_rw_block+93}
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: RSP: 0018:0000010007fcdc48  EFLAGS: 00010287
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 0000010028faf440 RCX: 0000010028faf440
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: 0000000000000001
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000010028faf5c0
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000080 R12: 0000000000000040
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: R13: 0000000000000200 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000010007fcdcb8
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: FS:  0000000000560b80(0000) GS:ffffffff804bcbc0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: CR2: 0000002a9556c000 CR3: 00000000e7902000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: Process kjournald (pid: 432, stackpage=10007fcd000)
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: Stack: 0000010007fcdc48 0000000000000018 ffffffff80211399 0000000000000206
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel:        0000010007fcdcb8 0000010015a722b8 0000010015a72260 0000010015aa1b50
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel:        0000000000000040 000001000aeac6c0 ffffffffa009c747 00000100078d0b10
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: Call Trace: [ll_rw_block+345/464]{ll_rw_block+345} [_end+532289351/2131775488]{:jbd:journal_commit_transaction+1415}
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: Call Trace: [<ffffffff80211399>]{ll_rw_block+345} [<ffffffffa009c747>]{:jbd:journal_commit_transaction+1415}
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel:        [_end+532303848/2131775488]{:jbd:kjournald+616} [_end+532303200/2131775488]{:jbd:commit_timeout+0}
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel:        [<ffffffffa009ffe8>]{:jbd:kjournald+616} [<ffffffffa009fd60>]{:jbd:commit_timeout+0}
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel:        [child_rip+8/16]{child_rip+8} [_end+532303232/2131775488]{:jbd:kjournald+0}
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel:        [<ffffffff80110b04>]{child_rip+8} [<ffffffffa009fd80>]{:jbd:kjournald+0} 
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel:        [child_rip+0/16]{child_rip+0} 
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel:        [<ffffffff80110afc>]{child_rip+0}
May 11 13:17:08 timesync kernel: 

Has any reader successfully used an Apple Xserve RAID box with SuSE 9.x 
(x86_64)? If so, could you give me a pointer or two.  I know how to do 
most mid-level sysadmin tasks with Linux but don't know how to do kernel 
tweaking (so I'm hoping that's not what's needed :)

-- wally