Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 29 Aug 2003 15:38:17 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2003-08-29 at 15:00, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Is there _anyone_ who is using a number of ATA133 IDE disks (>=6), each on > its own IDE channel, on a number of PCI IDE cards, and doing so
The most I know of is 8, and that was one of the people who found the shared IRQ/IDE race cases that 2.4.21 or so fixed.
> > 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. > > If the NMI count is positive in /proc/interrupts, and I have nmi_watchdog=2 > in /proc/cmdline, does that mean that the NMI watchdog is turned on? If
nmi watchdog trigger failure would indicate hardware problems in just about any situation I can imagine. The nmi is just that -not maskable- by software.
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