On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:10:31AM +0100, DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre wrote: > Bill MacAllister wrote: > > I probably would not be futzing around with this system at all if it was > > stable. Even though I can boot a 2.4.28 smp kernel and a 2.6.8 generic > > kernel, neither is stable. The system kernel panicked in the middle of > > the day again today. I have been fighting stability problems since I > > left the last official Red Hat release, 7.2. > I have read on news (likely comp.os.linux.alpha) that RH 7.2 may be the only 'known > to be be stable' system for Alpha. How nice of you to be repeating hearsay. There are some of us that have been using Debian on alpha without any stability problems for *years*. There are certainly some issues with particular hardware drivers in 2.6 that affect common alpha hardware, but the only reason to recommend RH7.2 is that it has an older -- and completely unsupported, security-wise -- kernel. If you want *that*, you should be able to get it just as well with an old version of Debian as with an old version of Red Hat... > > I have seen notes about qLogic problems. This system now has two qLogic > > controllers in it. I don't have log files or debugging output it does > > seem like this is a qLogic problem. Currently the system seems to have > > problems when it gets busy. I thought that with 2.6 the driver was > > supposed to be supported again. > to me, 2.6 driver is an untouched fork of a 2.4 one: people seemed to copy the file > without actually paching it against 2.6, cf source. From my experience, I would say > that the driver has so many issues and interractions that Linux may hang without > being able to tell it hanged due to QLA10xx-isp driver. If you have concrete information about problems with this driver, please see bug #313552 in the BTS. I ended up working around the problem on my own system by throwing an Adaptec 2940 into my system (which I was then surprised to find that SRM could see just fine), but I'd like to have that controller back for the system I lifted it from. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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