Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:32:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:32:12 -0500 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:43268 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:32:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:31:45 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: Kai-Boris Schad cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.17 with VT8367 [KT266] crashes on heavy ide load togeter with heavy network load In-Reply-To: <200203261127.MAA05078@correo.e-technik.uni-ulm.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an identical problem I am seeing w/ VIA and any add on card. Everybody and their brother is attempting NAS with cheap VIA boards and addon cards and they go south and die. http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html This is one of the better explaination why :-/ Regards, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Kai-Boris Schad wrote: > Hi ! > > I have problems with PC mainboard using the Via VT8367 [KT266] chipset. > lspci shows the configuration: > lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266] > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266 AGP] > 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10) > 00:0e.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev > 01)00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 > (rev 01)00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge > 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP (rev 27) > > The CPU is a 1400MHz Athlon. > We use this system for a software Raid 5. If we produce heavy load on the > disks and network the system hangs. There is no log of errors at all. We > tried to change the network card form a 3com to a rtl83xx. The system remains > a litle longer stable but crashes then too. We also tried to have the > harddisks on seperate ide channels but this didn't solve the crashs. > It seems to be something with the dma, because if we disable the dma of the > harddisks the system is stable. Does anybody also recognise this problem ? > Is there any solution for this effect ? > > Thanks a lot > > Kai > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/