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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