I'm able to reproduce an oops in 1.3.100. I'm trying to add another hard
drive (Maxtor 7540AV) to my dtc2278EB disk controller (on ide1). I hooked up
the ribbon cable and power cord, booted and got this: (I wrote this down...)
hdc: Maxtor 7540AV, 515MB w/32kb cache, LBA, CHS = 1046/16/63
hdc: IRQ probe failed
hdc: IRQ probe failed
hdc: IRQ probe failed
ide0 at 0x1f0 - 0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at vitrual address c00000f6
Current -> tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00102067
*pte = 00000027
oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: [<0015a705>]
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: 0000000f ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000002 edx: 0019bfb0
esi: 0019bfb0 edi: 0019c0e4 ebp: 00094f60 esp: 00094f2c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0018 ss: 0018
Process Swapper (pid:1 process nr:1, stack page = 00094000)
stack: 0019bfb0 00000000 0019c0e4 00094f60 0015a7c6 0019c0e4 0019bfb0 00094f60
0019cde4 0019c1bc 001587ec 00009000 00000216 00000000 0015aa4e 0019c0e4
00000001 00094fdc 001903e4 0015aafa 00000001 0018efb4 0015648c 00095018
call trace: [<0015a7c6>] [<001587ec>] [<0015aa4e>] [<0015aafa>] [<001564c8>]
[<00156c5b>] [<0012d10c>] [<0010a3f9>] [<0011dd44>] [<00170018>]
[<0010932a>] [<00109156>] [<0010915d>] [<001092e0>]
code: 08 83 d6 00 00 00 74 03 89 75 00 5b 5e 5f 5d 33 8d 76 00 83
started kswapd
and then the machine hangs. This happened 3 times in a row. I'd look up the
EIP value, but ksymoops segfaults and 'nm vmlinux | sort | less' says it
doesn't recognize the file format... :\
-Matthew