From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.esiee.fr (mail.esiee.fr [147.215.1.3]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31ADC486B for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:02:41 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:02:39 +0200 Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] SMP (in)stability Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: Jeremy Drake , Grant Grundler , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org To: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de From: Thibaut VARENE In-Reply-To: <20020710092420.GA11862@elvis.franken.de> Message-Id: <8CE455AF-93F4-11D6-BEE2-0030656F07A2@esiee.fr> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Le mercredi 10 juillet 2002, =E0 11:24 , Thomas Bogendoerfer a =E9crit : > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:51:09AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: >> It also seems to me (though i cannot confirm atm) that the 'PIO mode'=20= >> in >> SYM53C8XX driver improves stability. > > I always use sym-2 now, because I had this strange harddisk slow down=20= > problem > with the old sym driver. That might be worth a try, too. Well, we were using sym-2 on A500 before switching to sym-1, and at that=20= time it used to hang very often... By the way, if you want to take a look at what I reported to Ryan when=20= hangs occured (SysRq 't', Ryan modified), take a look at: http://pateam.esiee.fr/archive/mails/ and read the *SMPHangReport* files... HTH, Thibaut VARENE PA/Linux ESIEE Team http://pateam.esiee.fr/