>
> 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:
>
> > 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 iŽm 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
> > [Download message RAW]
> >
> > 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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