RE: "exception Emask: 0x42" errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

2007-08-27 Thread Dermot Bradley
> I've added Jeff to CC in case he's interested about the workaround for > this drive (I assume you're using the AHCI driver with your ATI > controller). Yupe, using AHCI. I've just rebooted after adding that blacklist line to the kernel and recompiling but it doesn't seem to have taken effect:

RE: "exception Emask: 0x42" errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

2007-08-27 Thread Dermot Bradley
> FWIW, I've got the HDMI version of this board and I have exactly the same > problem (even with the newest BIOS) if nmi_watchdog is not set to zero. > Try booting with nmi_watchdog=0 (default on x86-64, I think) and see if > these go away. > > I guess the APIC has some difficulties handling NMIs.

RE: "exception Emask: 0x42" errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

2007-08-24 Thread Dermot Bradley
Alan Cox wrote: > > I'm getting the following errors on occasion: > > > > Aug 24 13:19:22 playpbx kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) > > Aug 24 13:19:33 playpbx kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > > This is not good. I've two things in mind to try: (1) there is 1 newer official BIOS release and

"exception Emask: 0x42" errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

2007-08-24 Thread Dermot Bradley
I've just built a new machine using a ASUS M2A-VM boardboard (ATI SB600 chipset), AMD X2 3800+ processor, and 2 Western Digital 2.5" 80Gb drives running in RAID-1 using MD. I've had these problems with both 2.6.22.1 and now 2.6.22.5 kernels. I'm getting the following errors on occasion: Aug 24 13