Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 29 Aug 2003 10:50:44 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2003-08-29 at 01:49, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Dear Folks, > > With a single 2.26GHz P4, an Asus P4B533-E motherboard, is it possible > to reliably use two additional PCI IDE cards (using SI680), one hard > disk per channel, and have the thing work reliably?
You should be able to, although with software raid your PCI bandwidth limits will limit the ultimate performance for mirroring/raid
> My machine locks solid at unpredictable intervals with no response > from keyboard lights, no Alt-Sysrq-x response, etc, with a wide > variety of 2.4.x kernels, including 2.4.22.
A freeze in an IRQ handler would cause that kind of thing, turning on the NMI watchdog might get you a trace in such a failure case - and that would help.
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