On Saturday 26 July 2003 22:52, Mika Liljeberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 16:12, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > I'm having problems with an Intel D865PERL motherboard and Serial ATA
> > support. Everytime I boot my RHL9 box using 2.6.0-test1, I get an
> > "irq18 nobody cared!" error and then "Disabling IRQ #18". Any attempt
> > to access any of the SATA controllers makes the system hang and
> > spitting out problems with timings on the "hde" interface.
>
> I have the same problem with Abit IS7-E, which also has the i865PE
> chipset.
>
> Add "noirqdebug" to the kernel command line and you should be able to
> boot, although the irq will be firing continously until the device
> driver gets initialized and catches it.

Out of interest, do these boxes have an IO-APIC and are you using ACPI? If so, 
can you tell me if the attached patch helps?

These are exactly the symptoms I got without the attached patch (it fixes an 
IO-APIC setup bug with ACPI).