Mark Odell wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: linux-ide-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>[mailto:linux-ide-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eyal Lebedinsky >>Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:31 AM >>To: list linux-ide >>Subject: sil24 vs. noapic: what does this mean? >> >>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 } > > > Which of course is a "no error" status. The LSbit indicates an error > which is not set here. Is it possible interrupts are not working > correctly? Of course. This is actually what I am asking here - is apic buggy in Linux? On the mobo? -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://samba.org/eyal/> attach .zip as .dat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
