I've been having some problems with my News server running 2.0.30

[Daniel M. Eischen]

> so I though I'd give the pre-2.0.31 versions a try since they have a
> newer version of the AIC7xxx drivers.
>
> The News machine is a Compaq Deskpro 6000 (PPro200) with 128Mb
> ram. It's got a Adaptec 3980 controller with the boot/root/overview/
> history disk ( a 4 gig Barracuda) on channel A (scsi0) and a SCSI-SCSI 
> RAID controller on channel B (scsi1) ID 6. The array controller is 
> configured for RAID0 over seven 2Gb 7200rpm Conner disks.
>
> Lately, I've been getting alot o these (with 2.0.30):
>
> Jul 19 08:59:44 borg kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
> Jul 19 08:59:45 borg kernel: eth0: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size
> 96.
>
> The machine has uptimes in order of weeks though.
[...]
> Aug 16 04:13:26 borg kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
> pid 4705553, scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 2b 21 f5 00
> 00 04 00 

You had a timeout.  Check the termination and cabling.  Use
an active terminator if you have one.  There was some mention
of a buffer patch for 2.0.30 - don't know which -pre-x it's
in, though.  I'd suggest using the latest and greatest -pre-x.

There was a fix in the aic7xxx driver in -pre-7 I believe,
but that 
only corrects a problem if you have SCB paging enabled.  You
don't mention what config options you have.

Dan Eischen
deischen at iworks.InterWorks.org