Re: Serverworks CSB5 IDE-DMA Problem (2.4 and 2.6)

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Thu Oct 09 2003 - 16:10:43 EST


On Thursday 09 of October 2003 22:58, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > APIC problem should be fixed, but yes it's better to disable ACPI.
>
> Not sure if I understand this one right - the dmesg was from the
> 2.6.0-test6 kernel which did have ACPI HT-enum-only compiled in but no
> "local APIC support".
> The 2.4.22 one that has the same problem does neither have ACPI nor APIC
> support compiled in - so no this doesn't seem to be the problem.

Okay.

> > These "timeout due to drive busy" needs to be resolved.
>
> Yes - I really hope this will be fixed soon. I was forced to add a
> fiberchannel HBA into this maschine today to integrate it into our SAN
> to get the database up to speed again.
> However I'm willing to move the database to the local disks again if you
> want me to test a patch or something along that line.

Did some kernel worked okay or this is new system?

--bartlomiej

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