From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: HDD problem, software bug, bios bug, or hardware ? Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:50:55 +0200 Message-ID: <201208270950.55590.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <1345858271.82172.YahooMailNeo@web124705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20120825113301.GA15210@liondog.tnic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([193.178.161.156]:34319 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753372Ab2H0Ho4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:44:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120825113301.GA15210@liondog.tnic> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Adko Branil , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" On Saturday, August 25, 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 06:31:11PM -0700, Adko Branil wrote: > > To add some more info - i just noticed in dmesg of the latest kernel-2.5.2 some suspicious lines: > > > > * [ 44.251706] microcode: AMD CPU family 0xf not supported > > * [ 44.255721] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) > > * [ 44.255736] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found. > > * [ 44.255736] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Try again with latest BIOS. > > > > Coult it be related to the crashes , and should i update my bios ? > > No. > > Try to enable the Cool'n'Quiet option in your BIOS - this message should > disappear then. > > Btw, there's a patch to make this more understandable: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134262430326493 > > Rafael, this one is queued for 3.7, I assume? Well, it should be, but I seem to have failed to merge my pm-cpufreq-next branch into linux-next. Sorry about that, will fix when I get back home from the KS/LinuxCon. Thanks, Rafael