Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Athlon SMP blues - kernels 2.4.[9 13 15-pre4] | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:01:56 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The only problem I still have is IDE. I can not run the IDE drive using DMA or the system will hang HARD, usually with the drive access light on. Even with DMA > disabled it might hang under high IDE usage. I will replace the IDE drive with a SCSI drive soon as the SCSI interface works perfectly and very fast. Early MP > chipsets had AGP and DMA hardware bugs, but according to AMD errata, the revision in my MoBo should not have these bugs (that doesn't mean it doesn't have them > though).
The earlier MP chipsets die if you have IDE prefetching enabled (see the errata doc). I'd be suprised if a BIOS had left that on. - 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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