Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: AMD64 and NFORCE3 250GB very slow and USB hungs | From | Bryan O'Sullivan <> | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:30:12 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 12:45 +0200, Michael Thonke wrote:
> I bought just a new AMD64 system with an NForce 3 based mainboard (MSI > K8N Neo2 Platinum).
There's a known problem with NForce2 and NForce3 chipsets that affects at least IDE interrupt handling, the effect being that the system hangs if there's "too much" disk activity. I've verified that this occurs with 2.6.8.1, but haven't tried more recent snapshots.
The symptom is that the system hangs hard during boot.
A tolerable workaround appears to be to drop the IDE UDMA level down to 3 using hdparm. If you're using a Fedora Core distro and edit /etc/ sysconfig/harddisks to do this, it gets set up early enough during boot that the system rarely hangs.
I haven't had time to look into this deeper, but I did file a bug against it: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3398
It should probably be owned by Jens, since it seems to be IDE-specific, but Andi has it for now.
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