Re: DMA timeout error and then kernel halted

From: Jan Mynarik
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 11:26:56 EST


On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 19:08, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> I do have similar problems with a HPT302 and WD2500JB disks on a Tyan
> S2885 (Dual Opteron 246). What does help me is to disable the IO-APICs
> at boot time using "noapic".
>
> Thus I don't believe this to be a disk/mobo problem but probably a
> driver problem.

Thanks, I'll try it. What will I loose not using IO-APIC?

Jan "Pogo" Mynarik

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