linux-kernel - Re: Adaptec driver crashes (1/3 and 2/3)

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Date:	Fri, 08 May 2009 19:38:57 +0000
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Norman Diamond <n0diamond@...oo.co.jp>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec driver crashes (1/3 and 2/3)

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 16:13 +0900, Norman Diamond wrote:
> The easiest 100% reproducible way to crash a Linux system is as follows.
> 
> Insert either an Adaptec 1460 PCMCIA card or Adaptec 1480 CardBus card. 
> Remove the card.  Insert the card again.  Even if you knew to set the 
> console to a text mode terminal first (since Linux doesn't give Blue Screens 
> of Death otherwise), you still won't get a dump.  Not much to go on without 
> a dump, but at least it's 100% repro.

Sounds like something's still pinned.  When you remove it the first
time, can you remove the module? (that's aha152x_cs right?).

James


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