3ware 9500 locks up on 6.0-stable!

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Tom Cumming <tcumming123 at gmail.com> [060112 15:20] wrote:
> 
>    When it says it's initializing (and you said 12%). Does the
>    initializing make forward progress, or is it stuck at 12%?
>    Why I'm asking, is that Vinode says you'd see these messages under
>    heavy load, and initializing + any load might be a, "heavy" load.
>    It still doesn't explain a hard lockup. The messages above are similar
>    to a SCSI "busy" status... that's normal.
>    There's some more things to check using the cli, I have to look try'm
>    here first.
>    Do you know of any specific steps you can do to reliably reproduce the
>    lockups? I get the impression there should be.
>    tom.c

It seems fine on 5-stable.

I have the following plans:

.) upgrade the device's firmware.
.) turn off questionable devices in the system BIOS (nvidia ethernet+APCI)
.) re-try with 6.x

I'll let you know what I figure out.

thank you!
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- Alfred Perlstein