Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-29 Thread Winfried Truemper
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > > APIC error on CPU1 00(02) or 02(02) or 00(08) or 00(04) > > BP6 bugs, not linux's, and especially not ide's fault. you have to > do the usual BP6 voodoo: bios update, extra fans, big PS, higher voltage. On friday I bought a power supply with

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > I've made a little progress fighting with bdflush. Can you please > > try this and see if it helps you? I have still to figure out why, > > but here, the first bdflush param _must_ be over 75 and under 90 > > to avoid zillions of context

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Anton Blanchard wrote: I've made a little progress fighting with bdflush. Can you please try this and see if it helps you? I have still to figure out why, but here, the first bdflush param _must_ be over 75 and under 90 to avoid zillions of context switches.

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > > APIC error on CPU1 00(02) or 02(02) or 00(08) or 00(04) > > BP6 bugs, not linux's, and especially not ide's fault. you have to > do the usual BP6 voodoo: bios update, extra fans, big PS, higher voltage. > > > The machine has four IDE ports on

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Anton Blanchard
> I've made a little progress fighting with bdflush. Can you please > try this and see if it helps you? I have still to figure out why, > but here, the first bdflush param _must_ be over 75 and under 90 > to avoid zillions of context switches. That alone will probably > help enough, but I

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > I don't really expect much from my BP6, but: >---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- >-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- > MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Hahn
> APIC error on CPU1 00(02) or 02(02) or 00(08) or 00(04) BP6 bugs, not linux's, and especially not ide's fault. you have to do the usual BP6 voodoo: bios update, extra fans, big PS, higher voltage. > The machine has four IDE ports on the motherboard, two are UDMA33, > two are UDMA66

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Hahn
APIC error on CPU1 00(02) or 02(02) or 00(08) or 00(04) BP6 bugs, not linux's, and especially not ide's fault. you have to do the usual BP6 voodoo: bios update, extra fans, big PS, higher voltage. The machine has four IDE ports on the motherboard, two are UDMA33, two are UDMA66 via

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: I don't really expect much from my BP6, but: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: APIC error on CPU1 00(02) or 02(02) or 00(08) or 00(04) BP6 bugs, not linux's, and especially not ide's fault. you have to do the usual BP6 voodoo: bios update, extra fans, big PS, higher voltage. The machine has four IDE ports on the

Re: 2.4.0-test10pre5: still IDE lockups on HPT366 controller.

2000-10-24 Thread Anton Blanchard
I've made a little progress fighting with bdflush. Can you please try this and see if it helps you? I have still to figure out why, but here, the first bdflush param _must_ be over 75 and under 90 to avoid zillions of context switches. That alone will probably help enough, but I still