Re: Hardlocks with 2.4.21-pre5, pdc202xx_new (PDC20269) and shared IRQs

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 09:57:44 EST


On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 07:22, Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> Well, now I have trashed my array :-)
> -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=104811878405765&w=2
>
> Btw., it spits out *lots* of messages when IRQ sharing is *disabled*
> in the kernel config and just dies quietly when it's *enabled*
> (having it dying before didn't mess up my array... ;)).

I'll take a look. I have no promise docs however so there is little that
can be done for promise specific bugs if it looks that way.

> ?! I'm using the onboard IDE for two CDROM drives and one smaller
> hard disk which I use rarely... and I didn't use any of these devices
> in the cases in which I had the described problems... Anyway, why should I
> connect a PS/2 mouse to the machine? Is it gonna solve all my
> problems at once? ;-)

Probably not, but it will avoid a lockup with IDE DMA in a specific case

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