Hello all,

Thanks to valuable help from roland, I was able to
boot with the following options:

``nosmp ide=nodma libata.dma=0''

after what I ran an agressive stability test for a
while, with no problem whatsoever. Maybe it's too
soon to say, but I have a good feeling this time. It
seems roland figured it out.

If everything goes well, I'll reduce the command line
in order to narrow the problem further down.

(and indeed, this is a hyper-threading single core CPU)

Sincerely,
--
Luis Sousa

--- devzero@web.de escreveu:

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> did you try UP-kernel or tried booting with "nosmp" and does that make any difference ?
> 
> >This is a 2-processor CPU:
> ># cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> >processor       : 0
> >vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> >cpu family      : 15
> >model           : 4
> >model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
> 
> most likely this just "appears" as 2-way processor , but i´m quite sure this is just a
> single-core CPU, but with HyperThreading enabled.
> 
> 
> regards
> roland
> 
> 
> 
> List:       linux-kernel
> Subject:    sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24
> From:       Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa () yahoo ! com ! br>
> Date:       2008-03-28 22:24:48
> Message-ID: 739784.81690.qm () web46009 ! mail ! sp1 ! yahoo ! com
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
> long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
> move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
> that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
> they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
> to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
> like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.
> 
> Nothing ever shows up in the logs.
> 
> I'm using the following drive:
> 
> ATA device, with non-removable media
>         Model Number:       MAXTOR STM3160215AS                     
>         Serial Number:      6RA2TMJ4
>         Firmware Revision:  3.AAD   
> 
> Linux localhost 2.6.24.4 #4 SMP Fri Mar 28 14:51:50 BRT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> This is a 2-processor CPU:
> 
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 15
> model           : 4
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
> stepping        : 9
> cpu MHz         : 3013.697
> cache size      : 1024 KB
> 
> (same goes for processor : 1)
> 
> Sincerely,
> --
> Luis Sousa
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