Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> What chipset and drive vendor?
>
Hi
I'm having same kind of problems for two months (BP6 2x492MHz (400))
Just now I've made some new tests - for them I use this setup:
build SMP kernel (with AGP patch)
boot SMP kernel with nosmp option into single mode.
turn DMA off (# hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda)
test the speed (# while : ; do hdparm -t /dev/hda ; done)
Two months ago I've got "hda: lost interrupt message" even
on my home computer (BP6 2x556 (400)) computer.
Now I don't have such problems with this test at home
- so I would say there were some IDE improvements which have
fixed this.
However this problem remains on my computer at University.
And it looks like it's network related - as when I do not insert
eth0 module (eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xd000 100Mbps)
(or I remove network card completely) I couldn't get this messages
with this test. But as soon is eth0 is used the problem is back.
I've also tried other network card: tulip 10Mbps board and with the
same results (so I think it is not 3com related).
As this computer is being used in network environment
it is quite problematic to use it reliable - also
I don't have any problems with 2.2.14pre12 on a single CPU
system.
And one more comment - problems are visible much sooner
when I'm using RTLinux extension - especially when nfs server
gets busy (like package upgrade (running Debian)) this client
machine locks quite fast. Sometimes I could see the message:
"nfs server ... busy" in the xconsole window (and it isn't,
because it's serving other clients without any problems)
- but thats all I could see and do with this computer as it is no
longer
usable - as even disks can't be remounted read-only (even with magic
key).
Is there any tool which could help to finaly catch this bug??
bye
--
binary drivers cause sclerosis of the kernel (mark hahn)
Zdenek Kabelac http://i.am/kabi/ kabi@i.am {debian.org; fi.muni.cz}
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