RE: IDE + SMP Lockup (no OOPS) in 2.2.12, 2.2.10

Stephan van Hienen (ddx@a2000.nu)
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:35:48 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> it's easy to check wether it's a problem wrt. shared/unshared IRQs. Please
> could you boot with 'maxcpus=1' LILO command line option - this will get a
> single-processor SMP kernel, with the IRQ sharing properties the mptable
> dictates. Basically if any IRQ sharing makes a stability difference that
> is very likely not a generic SMP bug but a driver one.

with maxcpus=1 the machine not crashes

(did hdparm -t /dev/hda & hdparm -t /dev/hdc & hdparm -t /dev/hde &
hdparm -t /dev/hdg about 20 times)
and turning raid on, also works ok (fsck it etc.)

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