From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264567AbTLMMBf (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:01:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264605AbTLMMBe (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:01:34 -0500 Received: from k-kdom.nishanet.com ([65.125.12.2]:24077 "EHLO mail2k.k-kdom.nishanet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264567AbTLMMBX (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:01:23 -0500 Message-ID: <3FDAFF79.5080509@nishanet.com> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:00:57 -0500 From: Bob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Working nforce2, was Re: Fixes for nforce2 hard lockup, apic, io-apic, udma133 covered References: <200312132040.00875.ross@datscreative.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200312132040.00875.ross@datscreative.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org udma133 with Award bios update and nforce2 APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) what?? no crash though. Ross Dickson wrote: >Hi Bob > >Jesse has award bios, see attached >Ross. > Months ago I thought using a 3ware card might help with nforce2 crashes so I gave up on promise and sii hd cards after a lot of experiments(hdparm, no lapic, no acpi, apic off in bios) and put in a 3ware card but I flashed the bios at the same time so didn't know if the 3ware card helped with the nforce2 crashing or not, since the bios flash did the job. With 3ware I couldn't use hdparm to see what udma settings the drives were set to. Now I can report. Just now I took the 3ware card out and went back to promise cards(using 4 hd's either method, 2 cd's on mboard amd74xx, onboard sata disabled). bob@where cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 3350153 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 5775 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 5385 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 10 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 10 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 1717957 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3, eth0 19: 472929 IO-APIC-level ide4, ide5 21: 0 IO-APIC-level NVidia nForce2 NMI: 822 LOC: 3350073 ERR: 35 MIS: 15818 cd's on amd74xx onboard, amd74xx onboard is always solid, 4 ide hd's on two promise cards. not many nmi ticks without the better patch there. bonnie++ smooth, then hdparm up the settings, udma6, bonnie++ again, saw a few "APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)" but no lockup. not sure if data lost since it was a test. APIC error might be fixed by changing hdparm settings. This second test was with unmasked irq and udma6. I have to patch to get ioapic edge timer on. This 11/7/2003 updated award bios does not have a cpu disconnect option but it does eliminate the crashes with no patch and it is no longer impossible to use promise ide udma133 controller cards. MSI K7N2 Delta MCP2-T mboard I don't have the promise patch in yet, either, so the APIC error might be from that, or hdparm unmasked irq. -Bob