Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2003 12:40:42 -0700 | From | Forrest L Norvell <> | Subject | Re: System hang with ASUS Socket-A motherboard |
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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:14:28AM +0100, ross.alexander@uk.neceur.com wrote: > Sven, > > Both Forrest and myself have very similar problems with > the system just completely freezing ie kernel goes catatonic. > > Originally I though this was because of a bug in the AIC7xxx > driver but I have had my system lock up during a file system > check (after rebooting from a previous lockup :-(. > > The SCSI driver is a module so that isn't to be faulted (but the > card could be). My (very unscientific) conclusion is that it > probably is a bug in the kernel interrupt handling code. It > does tend to happen much more often under high IDE loads, > for example CD ripping or file system checking so it could > be getting an interrupt while still dealing with a previous disk > interrupt but I could well be talking bullsh*t. Things I haven't > yet tried include disabling the SATA chipset and pulling > out the PCI ethernet card (since I don't actually need it > any more as linux-2.4.21 supports the builtin 3Com device). > > For the mailing list here is my system details. > > Processor: AMD 2800+. > Motherboard: AUS A7N8X Deluxe > Chipset: nforce2 SPP + MCP2-T > Memory: 1.5GB (3 x 512MB)
I'd like to state for the good of the order that since I updated to 2.4.21-rc2 and stopped trying to use the ac patch, I haven't had any hangs, although I have had a few "8259A Interrupt" messages logged to kmsg. No uniprocessor APIC support, ACPI + APM compiled in, SCSI compiled into kernel instead of modularly, all NForce gunch tainting up the kernel and working just fine.
Forrest
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