Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:10:12 -0800 | From | "Michael A. K. Gross" <> | Subject | Re: Lockup on 2.4.42 with Intel PIIX3 |
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"Michael A. K. Gross" wrote: > > Hi folks, > I tried out 2.4.42 to experiment with the FireWire support, but I ran into > a problem with (I think) the IDE driver instead. The machine locks up > during the boot phase. The last thing on the screen is > > PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 69 > PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > It does *NOT* identify ide1, as 2.2.12 does, and the system locks up at > this point, with no further output. I thought the two video capture cards > might possibly be interfering with the IRQ, so I pulled them out. No luck. > The only thing I've tried that works is to completely remove IDE support from > the kernel, but then of course I can't use any IDE devices. I'd be immensely > grateful for any suggestions you folks might provide. Please CC any responses > to me (gross@cse.ucsc.edu). > Some more info about this problem:
The lockup appears to be occuring in drivers/block/ide.c, in ide_delay_50ms(). Inserting a printf into the while loop indicates that "jiffies" is not changing, and has a very low value of 0x28. I presume this value is supposed to be tied to the system clock somehow. What could cause that to fail?
Many thanks, once again.
Mike Gross
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