Hello Everybody, I have been running SuSe 9.1 pro (installed all latest updates) for AMD64 on my S2882 motherboard with two opteron processors for a long time (8-months) without any major problem. The system hard drive is an ide drive. I have a promise sx6000 external raid array attached to the on-board SCSI on chanel A and a VXA2 tape drive on chanel B. Last thursday night the machine ran into trouble with the scsi part. The scsi devices were not accessible and the kernel put out the following in the messages file. Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: scsi0: At time of recovery, card was not paused Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: scsi0: Dumping Card State at program address 0x11 Mode 0x33 Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: Card was paused Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: HS_MAILBOX[0x0] INTCTL[0x80]:(SWTMINTMASK) SEQINTSTAT[0x0] Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: SAVED_MODE[0x11] DFFSTAT[0x33]:(CURRFIFO_NONE|FIFO0FREE|FIFO1FREE) Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: SCSISIGI[0x0]:(P_DATAOUT) SCSIPHASE[0x0] SCSIBUS[0x0] Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: LASTPHASE[0x1]:(P_DATAOUT|P_BUSFREE) SCSISEQ0[0x0] Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: SCSISEQ1[0x12]:(ENAUTOATNP|ENRSELI) SEQCTL0[0x0] SEQINTCTL[0x0] Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: SEQ_FLAGS[0xc0]:(NO_CDB_SENT|NOT_IDENTIFIED) SEQ_FLAGS2[0x0] Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: SSTAT0[0x0] SSTAT1[0x8]:(BUSFREE) SSTAT2[0x0] SSTAT3[0x0] Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: PERRDIAG[0x0] SIMODE1[0xa4]:(ENSCSIPERR|ENSCSIRST|ENSELTIMO) Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: LQISTAT0[0x0] LQISTAT1[0x0] LQISTAT2[0x0] LQOSTAT0[0x0] Feb 26 04:08:35 raid1lac kernel: LQOSTAT1[0x0] LQOSTAT2[0x0] .................. .............. ........ The system works fine after I reboot the computer and the raid array. I am not sure wether the scsi card is going bad or is it the raid array going bad. Could anybody tell me what is exactly happening here or how I should go about figuring our what has went bad. Thank You -Raj