Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:16:15 -0700 | From | Marc Perkel <> | Subject | Re: sata_nv + SMP = broken? |
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Vladimir Lazarenko wrote:
> Hello, > > Yesterday I've tried launching various kernels on Ahtlon64 Dual-core > X2 3800+ with MSI Neo4 Platinum SLI motherboard. > > The results were a total catastrophica failure. As soon as I enable > SMP in the kernel, the sata driver would randomly hang after a bit of > disk activity. > > Whenever apic is enabled, the system won't even be able to boot up > completely, and will hang VERY soon. Whenever I disable apic, the > system is able to bootup, but when the software mirror that I use will > try to resync for 2-3-10 mins, it will throw up a message and freeze > again. > > Whenever I disable apic AND lapic, the system is able to bootup AND > work, however after same 5-10 minutes it start spitting messages, > which are somewhat different thou and don't hang the system completely > but render it rather unusable anyway. > > As soon as I disable SMP - everything works like a charm. >
For what it's worth I too have seen this same problem. It happens when I use the stock Fedora kernels but not my custom compiled kernel. I'm not sure what I compiled differently but at the time I thought that something in the new kernel fixed it.
I too am running an Athlon X2 using sata_nv. I have an ASUS motherboard. But what I noticed was that the problem went away if I used 2 gigs of ram instead of 4 gigs. When you use the whole 4 gigs there is some memory mapping going on and I thought perhaps the problem was related to the sata_nv not liking the memory mapped over the 4gig barrier. I did not try disabling SMP.
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