<div>SOLVED: By adding the noapic kernel parameter, the errors and lockups went away.</div>
<div>Can someone on this list elaborate more on this subject and why is (or not) a good option to disable APIC ?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Thanks,<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Erick Perez</b> <<a href="mailto:eaperezh@gmail.com">eaperezh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
<div>I have found after a few google hours, that there is a problem with the VIA chipset included in my motherboard and that I should use the noapic kernel parameter in order to avoid the problem. Everything seems realted to the
2.4 kernel series.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I will keep posting more info if i find anything new. Will try the noapic later this afternoon and report back.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Here is more info about my board.</div>
<div><br>
<p>[root@mail etc]# hdparm -i /dev/hda</p>
<p>/dev/hda:</p>
<p> Model=Maxtor 91531U3, FwRev=FA520S60, SerialNo=G3HA0YDC<br> Config={ Fixed }<br> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57<br> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16<br> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=30015216
<br> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}<br> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4<br> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2<br> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4<br> AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
<br> Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17:</p>
<p> * signifies the current active mode</p>
<p>[root@mail etc]# lspci<br>00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0259<br>00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1259<br>00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2259
<br>00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3259<br>00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4259<br>00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7259<br>00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
<br>00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)<br>00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)<br>00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
<br>00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)<br>00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)<br>00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 81)<br>00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)<br>00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)<br>00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB
2.0 (rev 86)<br>00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800 South]<br>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 02)<br></p><br> </div>
<div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Erick Perez</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:eaperezh@gmail.com" target="_blank">eaperezh@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span> </span>
<div><span class="e" id="q_105c05aa89a2314b_2">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
<div>Hi there, the following errors are being displayed on a brand new motherboard with 1 brand new SATA drive. The computer is running WB respin 2 (rhel3)</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The computer has been running for 3 weeks before this message started to appear.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 </div>
<div>hda: DMA interrut recovery</div>
<div>hda: lost interrupt</div>
<div> </div>
<div>When the errors start to appear, the machine halts and i have to hard reset because it does not respond even to local console.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>what does that mean?</div>
<div><br><br>Thanks,</div>
<div> </div></blockquote></span></div></div><br><br clear="all">
<div><span class="e" id="q_105c05aa89a2314b_4"><br>-- <br><br>-------------------------------------------<br>Erick Perez<br>Linux User 376588<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://counter.li.org/" target="_blank">
http://counter.li.org/</a> (Get counted!!!) <br>Panama, Republic of Panama<br></span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>-------------------------------------------<br>Erick Perez<br>Linux User 376588
<br><a href="http://counter.li.org/">http://counter.li.org/</a> (Get counted!!!)<br>Panama, Republic of Panama<br>