On Friday 24 August 2007 20:20:02 Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:39:10 +0100 > > "Dermot Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just built a new machine using a ASUS M2A-VM boardboard (ATI SB600 > > chipset), AMD X2 3800+ processor, and 2 Western Digital 2.5" 80Gb drives > > running in RAID-1 using MD. I've had these problems with both 2.6.22.1 > > and now 2.6.22.5 kernels. > > > > I'm getting the following errors on occasion: > > > > Aug 24 13:19:22 playpbx kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) > > Aug 24 13:19:33 playpbx kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) > > This is not good.
FWIW, I've got the HDMI version of this board and I have exactly the same problem (even with the newest BIOS) if nmi_watchdog is not set to zero. Try booting with nmi_watchdog=0 (default on x86-64, I think) and see if these go away. I guess the APIC has some difficulties handling NMIs. > > Aug 24 13:55:31 playpbx kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x42 SAct > > 0x7fc77 SErr0x800 action 0x6 frozen > > Aug 24 13:55:31 playpbx kernel: ata3.00: (spurious completions during > > NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x7fc77 FIS=004040a1:00000008) > > Probably not connected - your drive seems to be talking rubbish > > Neither are good, the latter is probably a drive firmware problem and the > kernel will give up using NCQ with it if it keeps doing that, which > should be just fine. I get the feeling this problem is independent of the APIC errors, and I don't see it here. I'm using Hitachi Deskstars on the on-board controller in AHCI mode, and everything works fine. As Alan said, it's very possibly just the drive not properly supporting NCQ. -- Cheers, Alistair. 137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
