From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Nick Urbanik <nicku@vtc.edu.hk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble??
Date: 29 Aug 2003 10:50:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1062150643.26753.4.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4EA30C.CEA49F2F@vtc.edu.hk>
On Gwe, 2003-08-29 at 01:49, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> With a single 2.26GHz P4, an Asus P4B533-E motherboard, is it possible
> to reliably use two additional PCI IDE cards (using SI680), one hard
> disk per channel, and have the thing work reliably?
You should be able to, although with software raid your PCI bandwidth
limits will limit the ultimate performance for mirroring/raid
> My machine locks solid at unpredictable intervals with no response
> from keyboard lights, no Alt-Sysrq-x response, etc, with a wide
> variety of 2.4.x kernels, including 2.4.22.
A freeze in an IRQ handler would cause that kind of thing, turning on
the NMI watchdog might get you a trace in such a failure case - and
that would help.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-29 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-29 0:49 Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? Nick Urbanik
2003-08-29 9:50 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-08-29 14:00 ` Nick Urbanik
2003-08-29 14:22 ` lk
2003-08-29 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-29 21:14 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-30 3:46 ` Nick Urbanik
2003-09-08 6:13 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-08 17:20 ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-08-29 15:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-31 12:43 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2003-08-31 15:46 ` joe briggs
2003-08-31 23:41 ` Nick Urbanik
2003-09-01 6:01 ` many IDE PCI cards "spurious 8259a" irq15(SMBus nforce2) Resident Boxholder
2003-09-01 7:51 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-01 10:14 ` IDE PCI cards IOAPIC " Resident Boxholder
2003-09-06 12:44 ` Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? Steve Bromwich
2003-10-22 16:36 Alex Finch
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