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* Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble??
@ 2003-08-29  0:49 Nick Urbanik
  2003-08-29  9:50 ` Alan Cox
  2003-09-06 12:44 ` Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? Steve Bromwich
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: Nick Urbanik @ 2003-08-29  0:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel list

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?

Could this be the cause of my lockups?  I have a total of 6 ATA133
hard disks, one DVD player all connected to the two IDE channels on
the motherboard, and one disk to each of the channels of the SI680
cards.

Some people have told me that this is just asking for trouble, and
that I should buy a 3ware card instead.

I am also using software RAID1, RAID5 with LVM on top.

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.

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2003-08-29  0:49 Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? Nick Urbanik
2003-08-29  9:50 ` Alan Cox
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

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