It seems that the problem is with the way the BP6 handles smp disk
access and scheduling...probably an overrun error or something...
Mike
On Fri,
17 Mar 2000, Valentijn Sessink wrote:
> Michael Shobe wrote:
> >
> > Mine is stable, sortof...
> [...]
> > busy light comes on, and the hard disk quits and then my whole scsi bus
> > resets...but i did not have to reboot or anything...
>
> OK... that's - sort of ;) - good to hear. Also I note that you're using
> SCSI. Mine hard locks with stress IDE activity (although I did a nasty
> find -exec grep thing during a kernel compile, that did *not* crash the
> box. It seems throughput related with IDE?), but seems to work all right
> during "daily work".
>
> Could it be that there's just a small quirk in the DMA or IRQ handling
> of either Linux or the BP6? Does anyone know if Linux will reset the
> SCSI bus if it misses an DMA/IRQ? The error I get just a couple of
> seconds before the hang is a "DMA timeout".
>
> ... sorry if I push this stability thing too hard, but I've never had
> such an instable mobo with linux and I just *have* to know if there is
> any logic behind it. Especially the UP stability with the BP6 still
> bothers me... (could we get that instable, too, please? ;)
>
> V.
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