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SubjectRe: HPT370 locks up (2.4/2.6)
Weird question, but do you perhaps have the APIC enabled?

Balazs Ree wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:54:01 +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>
>
>>You may need to serialize channel usage in driver code if it indeed
>>happens when both channels are working at the same time.
>>
>>
>
>Thank you, this tip was really useful.
>
>Setting #define HPT_SERIALIZE_IO in hpt366.h solves the lockups on my
>machine (ABIT KT7-RAID). There seems to be a small (10-20%) performance
>penalty involved according to the benchmarks on my RAID1 setup, but that's
>acceptable.
>
>If this solves the "hdd led stays on" freezups for others with HPT370
>(rev. 3) on motherboards with possibly buggy IRQ handling, then maybe this
>option could even be made settable through kernel config, together with an
>appropriate explanation.
>
>
>

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