RE: Serious ext3 file corruption in Taroon?

["Michael Halligan" <Michael Halligan MyPoints com>]

Ahh. There's a linux-poweredge list..

Hrm. So the so-called "level 3" support from redhat was basically a
waste of money?  I hoped eventually there was a magic number at Dell I
could call and have somebody say "Oh yeah, use this version of XX
driver" .. But, judging my experience with Dell over the past 6 months,
it just reaffirms my suspicions that all vendor software support
contracts are worthless, and that Dell's hardware belongs in the bottom
of a trash bin?

I'll try all those steps, but my thoughts really are this is an ext3
problem.. I've never received any scsi errors on these boxes, they just
sort of kernel panic and never come back.


Michael T. Halligan
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-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of nathan r. hruby
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:02 PM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: Serious ext3 file corruption in Taroon?

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Michael Halligan wrote:

  
> Any thoughts on the subject matter?
>  

- Update the BIOS/ESM/RAID firmware on the boxes
- Update the firmware for the SCSI disks (yes, *disks* these updaters
are
  availible from Dell as small bootable ISO images, ther are a lot,
  depending on what disks you have)
- Run the OMSA-1.8 stuff to at least get monitoring
- If these are megaraid based cards, try using the megaraid_2002
- Poke around linux.dell.com, espically the linux-poweredge dell com
  list (whcih is where Dell Phone Support would tell you ask anyway)

I have none of the PERC4's but the above tends to help many of the Dell
related issues I've seen/had.

HTH!

-n
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