Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-24 Thread nate
partha chowdhury wrote: > i want to know one thing - the hardware failing logic you earlier spoke > of - is that disabled or removed in latest 2.6.26.5 kernel because i > experimented with custom compiling that kernel and did not receive any > error message whatsoever. Download the kernel sourc

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-24 Thread partha chowdhury
MHR wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, partha chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well i managed to fix the problem after an intensive search through the forum and adding the noirqdebug option to the kernel line. Are you /sure/ this fixes the problem? Your last fix didn't work

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-24 Thread partha chowdhury
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 07:09 -0700, nate wrote: > > I wouldn't think the system is about to fail if it's just going > slower. If there are specific error messages that point to it's > failing then maybe. Errors quoted earlier just seem like bad > hardware(perhaps poorly designed or built, rather

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-24 Thread nate
kira laucas wrote: > now that you have mentioned it, i have noticed recently that my desktop > motherboard usb port has gone slower. i mean previously i used to get 28-30 > MB/s transfer speed with my external usb drive. but now the max i get is > 10MB/s . i have tested the external drive on my fr

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-24 Thread kira laucas
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:39 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_kernel/kernel_configuration/re18.html > > By default, the kernel attempts to detect and disable unhandled > interrupt sources because they can cause problems with the > responsiven

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-24 Thread nate
MHR wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, partha chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> well i managed to fix the problem after an intensive search through the >> forum and adding the noirqdebug option to the kernel line. >> > > Are you /sure/ this fixes the problem? Your last fix didn't

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-23 Thread MHR
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, partha chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well i managed to fix the problem after an intensive search through the > forum and adding the noirqdebug option to the kernel line. > Are you /sure/ this fixes the problem? Your last fix didn't work out so well, so

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-23 Thread partha chowdhury
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:31 -0700, nate wrote: > partha chowdhury wrote: > > > can someone tell me if its a centos/rhel bug and if it is how and where > > i should file a bug report ? > > I'd say it's a hardware problem rather than a software bug > at this point. > > nate > > _

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-23 Thread nate
partha chowdhury wrote: > can someone tell me if its a centos/rhel bug and if it is how and where > i should file a bug report ? I'd say it's a hardware problem rather than a software bug at this point. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-22 Thread partha chowdhury
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 00:27 +0530, partha chowdhury wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:43 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > I'm seeing this same problem on IBM HS21-8853 blades. > > > > It _seems_ like a bug in IRQ routing in BIOS/motherboard.. ACPI issue? > > > > With IBM blades I'm able to fix

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-22 Thread partha chowdhury
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:43 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > I'm seeing this same problem on IBM HS21-8853 blades. > > It _seems_ like a bug in IRQ routing in BIOS/motherboard.. ACPI issue? > > With IBM blades I'm able to fix the problem by generating the initrd image > with "--without-usb" swit

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 06:58:21PM +0530, partha chowdhury wrote: > i add the "irqpoll" option to kernel line. after the system booted i log > into X with tty1 also login as root with the command " tail > -f /var/log/messages" for monitoring . After 10 to 20 minutes i got the > same message again b

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-19 Thread partha chowdhury
i add the "irqpoll" option to kernel line. after the system booted i log into X with tty1 also login as root with the command " tail -f /var/log/messages" for monitoring . After 10 to 20 minutes i got the same message again but this time immediately the system froze up ! i tried it 5 times now and

Re: [CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-19 Thread Ralph Angenendt
partha chowdhury wrote: >> Sep 19 13:13:02 station2 kernel: irq 50: nobody cared (try booting with the >> "irqpoll" option) > and the usb drive does not show up in nautilus any more. Then i have > to reboot and after logging into x the drive shows up .but again after > some time the same thing ha

[CentOS] usb irq problem

2008-09-19 Thread partha chowdhury
hallo to all . This is my first post to this list so please bare with me if i have made any mistake . My problem is : after every boot i receive the following message in terminal : > Sep 19 13:13:02 station2 kernel: irq 50: nobody cared (try booting with the > "irqpoll" option) > Sep 19 13:13