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 Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 27 August 2007 10:28:09 Dermot Bradley wrote: [snip] > Thanks for the help Alistair! One other point you may be able to help > with - this is the first time I've used a dual core processor and I > expected that /proc/interrupts would should interrupts distributed > between both cores wher

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

2007-08-26 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 24 August 2007 20:20:02 Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:39:10 +0100 > > "Dermot Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

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

2007-08-24 Thread Alan Cox
> (1) there is 1 newer official BIOS release and 2 beta BIOSes out for > this motherboard. The recent official BIOS (0901) does mention Linux: > >"Fixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 installation failed" > > So maybe a BIOS update will fix things. Yep > So I guess these drives should be added

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

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

2007-08-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:39:10 +0100 "Dermot Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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