Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Martin Eriksson" <> | Subject | Re: AMD Athlon + VIA Crashing On Disk I/O | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:12:22 +0200 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "E M Recio" <polywog@navpoint.com> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: AMD Athlon + VIA Crashing On Disk I/O
> Hiya, > > I have an AMD Athlon 1.2 with a VIA 8259A Chipset (see bottom). If I > compile the kernel with the Athlon option it crashes all the time. In > fact, I can't even get Redhat 7.2 installed without a core dump when it > tries to mount the filesystem. With the later kernels, it doesn't core > dump, but just freezes. > > IE: If I have ide-scsi module loaded, and I try to access the floppy > drive, it locks up the machine (regardless of whether cputype is Athlon > or K6.) > > IE: Updatedb locks up the machine. > > I get (when FSCK): > > spurious 8259A IRQ7
This is not the VIA chipset, it's the "8259A interrupt controller".
> Does anyone know if there's a bug fix for this chipset? My board is > made from FIC (crappy, instructions don't even matchup). I used to be > able to fix it by changing the CPU type to K6 but that doesn't work now > with the later kernels (2.4.15 and up.)
First check out what kind of chipset you really have; lspci -xs 0:0 should do the thing. Post the results.
In the meantime, you can try to compile for "Pentium-Pro/Celeron/Pentium-II", and check your BIOS settings one more time (set stuff to "safe" values). Also, do you have a really recent kernel, such as 2.4.18? There were some changes in the Athlon/VIA "quirks" department a while ago, but after 2.4.15 (i think).
_____________________________________________________ | Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org> | MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science | Umeå University, Sweden
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