Messages in this thread | | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-((( | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:18:25 -0700 |
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Just a note, in 2.4.6-pre5, the acpi=no-idle option goes away, but you should no longer experience any corruption issues, either.
Regards -- Andy
PS sorry you experienced problems - glad you could recover.
> From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:proski@gnu.org] > Hello! > > It's just a word of warning for those who are trying ACPI > with the latest > kernels. > > I enabled ACPI in 2.4.5-ac17 (2.4.5-ac16 works fine with the > same config > except ACPI). When I booted I saw a message > > ACPI: If experiencing system slowness, try adding "acpi=no-idle" to > cmdline > > and after that ... > > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 21:04) ... > > Normally it takes few seconds before the system goes further, but that > time it tool much longer (one minute maybe), and the next message was > something like "hde: DMA timeout" > > I hit reset hoping to boot the system with "acpi=no-idle", but GRUB > couldn't load stage2, which resides on the root partition (reiserfs). > > I had to install Linux on another drive and run reiserfsck. > It found many > errors, fixed them all, and now I'm happily running my old system. > > I also checked the same kernel with "acpi=no-idle" - it > works. The ACPI > messages are now: > > ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20010208] > ACPI: Subsystem enabled > ACPI: System firmware supports: C2 C3 > ACPI: plvl2lat=10 plvl3lat=20 > ACPI: C2 enter=143 C2 exit=35 > ACPI: C3 enter=858 C3 exit=71 > ACPI: Not using ACPI idle > ACPI: System firmware supports: S0 S1 S5 > > The config file is here: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/config > dmesg output is here: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/dmesg > > Possibly important data: > > Kernel compiled with gcc-3.0 > Motherboard Micron SE440-BX2 > BIOS 4S4EB2X0.05A.0016.P15 (the latest) > 1 Intel Pentium III 550MHz > Root filesystem is reiserfs > Root filesystem is on Promise PDC20267 ide controller > Local APIC (but not IO-APIC) is used. > > I can make more experiments (with other hard drives) if needed. > > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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