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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:20:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: machine checks on a AlphaPC 164LX 
Message-ID:  <15670.49338.264301.989244@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15669.57930.427134.220183@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <15669.57930.427134.220183@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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Andrew Gallatin writes:
 > 
 > I've got a PC164LX which will crash with a machine check under heavy
 > disk IO to its on-board CMD 646 ATA controller.

<..>

 > db> tr
 > Debugger() at Debugger+0x2c
 > panic() at panic+0x100
 > machine_check() at machine_check+0x1f0
 > interrupt() at interrupt+0x198
 > XentInt() at XentInt+0x28
 > --- interrupt (from ipl 4) ---
 > cia_bwx_inb() at cia_bwx_inb+0x24
 > ata_dmastatus() at ata_dmastatus+0x30

<..>

 > I'm starting to think that this might be just a sick motherboard.  Does
 > anybody else have any feelings about this?
 > 

The truely scary thing is that using swiz chipset access, rather the
bwx chipset access seems to stablize the machine.  

I still think I'm going to put it down to a sick motherboard, but
I wonder if there's a chance there's something wrong with our CIA bwx
code....

Drew

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