> hi luis,
>
> glad that it worked - but let us better call this a possible workaround, not a solution.
>
> mind that you loose lots of performance with this, because all i/o is handled by the cpu
> now.
>
> > If everything goes well, I'll reduce the command line
> > in order to narrow the problem further down.
>
> yes, please!
>
> regards
> roland
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: "Luis Sousa" <ls.luis_sousa@yahoo.com.br>
> > Gesendet: 12.04.08 17:34:39
> > An:
devzero@web.de
> > CC:
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Betreff: Re: sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24 [POSSIBLE SOLUTION]
>
>
> >
> > 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 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
> > > [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
