Re: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11)

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2003-12-03T01:23:49Z

How is the performance of the generic IDE driver?

My experience that it was almost unusable (kernel 2.4.22,
2.4.23) (fsck taking hours, etc)

>>>On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 01:58, Allen Martin wrote: -----Original
>>>Message----- From: Ian Kumlien [mailto:pomac@vapor.com] Sent:
>>>Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:47 PM
>>>
>>>Well, IDE is what i'd blame. My original experience about lost
>>>interrupts leads me to ide. Since i never loose interrupts
>>>without io-apic.
>>
>>Can someone who has a system showing this problem try booting
>>from a PCI IDE card to see if it makes any difference? I'd try
>>the experiment here, but I can't reproduce the hanging that's
>>being reported.

>Or just to verify boot a kernel without the nvidia/amd ide driver
>and io-apic enabled.
>
> -- Ian Kumlien