On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 11:14:56PM -0800, Todd Larason wrote:
> Are there archives of this list available? I'm a latecomer and would rather
> not bore everyone with things that have probably already been covered.
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was ever setup, but I could be wrong.
> In case not, I'll go ahead and get the preliminaries out of the way:
> I have a bp6 with 2x400mhz CPUs and 1 256mb PC100 dimm. None of it has ever
> been overclocked. I've tried a variety of kernels, ranging from 2.1.12
> through 2.3.37; currently I'm using 2.2.14 + ide.2.2.14.20000113, single
> processor. There are four IDE HDs in the system, currently hda, hdc, hdd, hde
> (the plan and eventual goal was hda, hdc, hde, hdg).
>
> Even with all the tweaking, reconfiguring, and moving down to a single CPU, I
> can't keep this thing running more than a few days under any kind of load.
> The earlier freezes were usually hard lockups with no error messages at all.
> More recently, they've been accompanied by messages about missing interrupts
> and timeouts waiting for DMA when writing to (or reading from?) hde.
>
> dmesg | grep hd:
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xbc00-0xbc07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> hda: FUJITSU M1638TAU, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: CREATIVE CD-RW RW4224E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdc: IBM-DTTA-371010, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: Maxtor 92720U8, ATA DISK drive
> hde: Maxtor 93652U8, ATA DISK drive
> hda: FUJITSU M1638TAU, 2452MB w/128kB Cache,CHS=4983/16/63, DMA
> hdc: IBM-DTTA-371010, 9641MB w/465kB Cache,CHS=19590/16/63, UDMA(33)
> hdd: Maxtor 92720U8, 25965MB w/2048kB Cache,CHS=52755/16/63, UDMA(33)
> hde: Maxtor 93652U8, 34837MB w/2048kB Cache,CHS=70780/16/63, UDMA(66)
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> hdc: hdc1 hdc3
> hdd: hdd1 hdd4
> hde: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hde1 hde2
>
> Any hints?
If you are getting error messages, you are doing better than most.
Have you tried 'noapic' boot option? Worth trying just to see.
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