Re: ia64 stability problems on HP rx2600-2

[Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au>]

It is unfortunate, but it is possible to insert the hotswap drive 
carriages into the rx2600/zx6000 machines poorly, so that they appear to 
be "locked in" but actually have a poor (but not zero) connection to the 
SCSI bus. This can lead to subtle failures, triggered by vibration or 
thermal cycling.

Just in case this is what you're seeing (do you swap to any of the 
hotswap drives? If so, that might explain the kernel panics... ), try this:

- remove all the drives that you have (including any blank 'spacers')
- reinsert them one by one, pushing them in as far as you can while 
keeping the latch "open" (you may have to hold it out), until it really 
does stop sliding in any further, and only _then_ latch it in. Of 
course, there's no need to force anything...

FWIW, I'm running software RAID 1 on a zx6000 (almost the same hardware, 
basically) with 2.6.9 and it seems to run fine, it's certainly been up 
more than a week and gets a pretty heavy disk load too.

I'm not sure why 2.6.10 isn't giving you a serial console, sorry :(

	Hope this helps,

	Duraid