From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: siimage card causes repeated oopses and panics on a PowerMac G4 running 2.6.12.1 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:22:31 -0400 Message-ID: <42BFE177.1050007@pobox.com> References: <9c1484f205062702203936d7ca@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:15824 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261208AbVF0LWh (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:22:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9c1484f205062702203936d7ca@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Schlansker Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Steven Schlansker wrote: > I have a SIIG Ultra-ATA 133/100 Pro for Mac card in my Sawtooth G4 > that, upon being touched in any way (loading the siimage module, > trying to access the corresponding /dev/hd? entries, and just about > anything else) causes either an oops, a flood of oopses, or a panic. > If I do so much as touch the new /dev/hde entry or such, many more > oopses and occassionally a panic will happen. I can provide more > samples if necessary, I figured two would be enough to get started. > The process is always different, and sometimes it even seems to be > unrelated to the card entirely. Usually it's modprobe and udev. I > have not successfully captured one of the panics with netconsole yet, > but I remember the line "Aieeee, killing interrupt handler" from them. > I do not believe that the hardware is defective, as the exact same > card works very well under Mac OS X (which even boots from a drive > connected to it, so OpenFirmware does not seem to have issues with it > either) Two things: 1) turn off preempt 2) use sata_sil driver rather than siimage Jeff