Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-29 Thread Winfried Truemper
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > > APIC error on CPU1 00(02) or 02(02) or 00(08) or 00(04) > > BP6 bugs, not linux's, and especially not ide's fault. you have to > do the usual BP6 voodoo: bios update, extra fans, big PS, higher voltage. On friday I bought a power supply with

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > I've made a little progress fighting with bdflush. Can you please > > try this and see if it helps you? I have still to figure out why, > > but here, the first bdflush param _must_ be over 75 and under 90 > > to avoid zillions of context switc

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > > APIC error on CPU1 00(02) or 02(02) or 00(08) or 00(04) > > BP6 bugs, not linux's, and especially not ide's fault. you have to > do the usual BP6 voodoo: bios update, extra fans, big PS, higher voltage. > > > The machine has four IDE ports on t

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Anton Blanchard
> I've made a little progress fighting with bdflush. Can you please > try this and see if it helps you? I have still to figure out why, > but here, the first bdflush param _must_ be over 75 and under 90 > to avoid zillions of context switches. That alone will probably > help enough, but I sti

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > I don't really expect much from my BP6, but: >---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- >-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- > MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CP

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Hahn
> APIC error on CPU1 00(02) or 02(02) or 00(08) or 00(04) BP6 bugs, not linux's, and especially not ide's fault. you have to do the usual BP6 voodoo: bios update, extra fans, big PS, higher voltage. > The machine has four IDE ports on the motherboard, two are UDMA33, > two are UDMA66 vi