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SubjectRe: Debugging hard lockups (hardware?)
Richard J Moore wrote:

> On Sun 6 April 2003 8:31 pm, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 07:34:09PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > 02:0a.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0680 (rev 01)
> > > > 02:0b.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0680 (rev 01)
> > >
> > > ...
> > > Your choice of components looks fine, its all stuff I trust, even if the
> > > ethernet card is not good for performance it ought to be fine in
> > > general. If it is a faulty part most likely its a one off fault.
> >
> > Note the IDE controller, and 2.5 bugzilla #123
> > That controller has been nothing but trouble for me.
> >
> > Dave
> >
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> Do you know that your platform support a watchdog timer.

Yes, the nmi field in /proc/interrupts was non-zero.

> Not every thing
> does, thought most do. It's probably worh verifying (cli; hlt;).
> Is it possible you have experiennced a triple-fault? Most CPUs reset but some
> have been known to freeze and require a manual reset. This can be verified
> relatively easily (make int 8 descriptor NP then loop recursively - does the
> system hang or reboot?).

Thank you, I will investigate this.

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