At the office we are testing a new mobo and initially used the onboard
SATA controllers (an sata_nv and sil24).
Disks are Seagate Barracuda ES 750GB on Asus P5N-SLI-SE-DELUXE mobo.
We get regular failures on the sil24 attached disks. Changing power supply
had no effect. We then booted with 'noapic' and not a single error today.
The errors are of this type (sorry, no logs were kept)
status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
They arrive often and do not seem to relate so specific disk activity. In
this case it was a raid syncing for a few hours (naturally it never completed).
What does this indicate: A mobo problem? A bios issue? A bios setup error?
A kernel apic issue or a sil24 driver issue?
I used to get these at home when I used a sil based card (now not in use
anymore) and I consider this a common problem. I also see these mentioned
often elsewhere (as a websearch can easily confirm).
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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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