I've not experienced any lookups and I just tested putting some load on the 3Com nic. A steady flow of 8 megabytes per second for about 5 minutes was no problem. At the same time, I watched a movie with mplayer.
You might want to try the gentoo-sources for your kernel, thats what I'm using. If that doesn't help, it probably has something to do with your raid setup since that would be the major difference between our machines. I have a Promise Fasttrack TX2 with 4x80 GB on it in the box, but I only use them while I'm running WinXP.
regards, Andreas
At 19:01 2003-05-28, you wrote:
Hi everyone. I just got myself a a7n8x (dx, with the dual onboard nics) and I am getting some hard lockups that I hope someone will be able to help me with.
The first seems to be related to the network card. I'm using the 3com port and loading the 3c59x driver.
To reproduce this I just have to start transfering a large amount of data over the network. I've been trying to scp a backup of my home directory from another box on my local network and a few seconds in the box will lock *hard*, no numlock/capslock leds, and a hard boot is required.
The second seems to be to do with large amounts of disk activity (could be the same as the above). After the last hard lockup my root (/dev/md0, a raid0 array of 2x10G partitions on two maxtor ide drives) reached it's max reboot count and a check was forced. About 40 seconds in it locked up hard again, same as before.
I'm going to try moving my network to the nforce NIC and see if that helps at all, but if fsck is broken as well...
Anyway I rebooted onto a knoppix rescue CD and ran the fsck normally, and it appeared to work just fine (I had to leave for work before it was done, but it was still chugging along a couple of minutes in).
Activities such as normal use, or compiling the kernel, or unmerging lots of data (two copies of the devel kernel) didn't affect anything.
Software: Gentoo 1.4, updated with stable, a few unstable packages (mozilla, etc). Kernel 2.4.21-ac and 2.4.20-gaming-r3 (might be with vanilla as well, don't remember).
Hardware: Asus A7N8X DX (nforce chipset, nforce/3com onboard nic, onboard sound) XP2500+ (Barton) 1G DDR333 in the dual speed config (slot 1,3) Asus Geforce4 Ti4200 Generic CDRW, generic CD 2x Maxtor IDE drives (20G,10G)
Please help! This system is smokin' fast normally, but if I can't even fsck it it's useless to me :( Things seem to work fine in XP BTW, I installed it in a dual boot config and installed fresh, and it went in, and updated with the 800 windows updates just fine.
TIA
alan
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