Thread: Areca 1680 and RHEL/Centos 5.3 issue

This is more a request for other folks and their experience.  We have
been running Centos 5.2 in production for nearly a year with little or
no issues.  The kernel it came with was 2.6.18-92.el5.  About two
months ago I updated one of our to servers to 5.3, and the new kernel
is 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.  I have had two lockups in the last month and
a half where the error message was "Ext3-fs error (device SDA1)
ext3_get_inode_bc: unable to read inode block inode=3909144
block=3932162 SD 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device".

I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience like this
lately.  I filed a bug report with RH,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511911 so if you have had
this situation please check in on that bug and post your experiences
as well as here.

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> About two months ago I updated one of our to servers to 5.3, and the new
> kernel is 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.

I had nothing but trouble on my one system with an Areca ARC-1210 using
the 2.6.18-92 kernel from 5.2 you said worked fine for you.  The problem I
ran into was similar to yours, the card just went off-line mysteriously
under load.

I upgraded that system to run a stock 2.6.22.19 using the same basic
configuration as the stock RHEL kernel and all the issues went away, so I
never circled back to check the later 2.6.18 releases from them.

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