Re: MSI K9N Neo: crash under heavy IDE read

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 15:53:05 EST


Hello,

Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I bought new Athlon46 mobo with AM2 socket and recently
> I noticed that copying large amounts of data reliably
> crashes 2.6.17.11 64-bit on it.
>
> memtest runs ok on this machine overnight.
> Machine is not overclocked.
>
> Copying movies from SATA drive to PATA drive oopses
> after few gigabytes transferred. Creating iso image
> with mkisofs (done entirely on PATA drive, no SATA attached)
> does the same.

I don't know about K9N Neo, but I have MSI K9N Ultra-2F (the same
MCP55) and have no such issues. But:
- I'm not using drivers/ide anymore (I was using 2.6.17.11 with
Alan's libata-PATA patch and now I have ca. 2.6.18-rc6 merged
with Jeff's pata-drivers git branch)
- I have only PATA CD-ROM (and SATA disk, Seagate ST3250823AS).
- just 1 GB of RAM.

Copied CD/DVD-ROM discs to HDD few times, no problems.

$ dd bs=$((1024*1024)) count=$((32*1024)) if=/dev/zero of=temp.tmp
32768+0 records in
32768+0 records out
34359738368 bytes (34 GB) copied, 670.17 seconds, 51.3 MB/s
$ time cat temp.tmp > /dev/null

real 10m0.175s
user 0m3.210s
sys 1m11.240s
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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