Re: P4C800E-Dlx: ICH5/S-ATA and Intel Pro onboard network incompatibility ?

[Erik Andersen]

On Thu Oct 09, 2003 at 09:00:45PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> Erik Andersen <andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > It turns out it was locking up while loading up the ide-scsi
> > kernel module.  I have
> 
> Oooh, ooh, me too!
> 
> And I'm not even using libata (I don't think?). 
> I'm just using stock 2.4.23-pre4.
> 
> This is a P4P800 with one SATA drive and two PATA drives.
> 
> The system works fine as long as ide-scsi isn't loaded
> (and noflushd doesn't spin down any drives).
> 
> Getting ide-scsi working is pretty soon on my todo list as it means being able
> to play DVDs and use the cdrecorder.

Do check your /proc/interrupts though.  With my P4P800 I found
that when set to Enhanced mode, and when ide-scsi was carefully
avoided, I was still getting a storm of interrupts that were
doing rather bad things for system performance.  Can you check if
you are also seeing the same thing?  i.e. does the interrupt line
with your ide controller(s) on it show bazillions of interrupts?

 -Erik

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