Got me stumped ...

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Ben Duncan wrote:
> This is REALLY starting to aggrieve me now ...
> (No not, you, but  the 'puter problems ...)
>
> Anyway, I am running kernel 2.6.20.1 latest version.
>
> I thought I had found a problem before lunch. Two of my
> memory modules were rated at 2.6V and one at 2.5V. I went and
> got a 2.6V 1GB right before lunch. Anyway, that helped for a
> little while. I hooked up the SCSI 3 from this machine disk and
> started copying. From the SCSI to IDE it went terrific. Was moving things
> around from IDE to IDE and it did the same thing. PDFLUSH went
> to 100% CPU and then the 'cp' did the same thing, with BOTH
> having at least 50% CPU showing. dmesg SHows up nothing,
> and you cannot reboot.
>
> It ALSO does not want to seem to unmount the disk's when issuing
> a shutdown or init 0 and hangs while coming down.

Well sure, that's expected.  If a process is blocking on IO, then you're 
hosed.  You can't unmount a filesystem that is in use (to prevent 
filesystem corruption).  Unfortunately that logic doesn't work out so well 
if you're trying to shut the OS down.


>
> Could this be APIC related ? I do have the CPU FSB set at 166 right now
> since it is a AMDXP 2600 XP CPU ... does that sound right?

I have no clue what is right for that board.  Although I'll ask a 2nd 
time.  What does dmesg output look like when this fails?

Also, are both IDE drives using the same controller or different 
controllers?

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