Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:12:21 -0400 From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> To: Christian Brandt <brandtc@psi5.com> Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux - unexpected interrupt... Message-ID: <370C2CA5.4B2AEE3E@redhat.com> References: <370BBE31.1F76BFC@psi5.com>
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Christian Brandt wrote: > Apr 4 18:39:14 lance kernel: unexpected IRQ vector 77 on CPU#1! > Apr 4 18:39:22 lance kernel: unexpected IRQ vector 70 on CPU#0! > Apr 4 18:41:35 lance kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2c. > Apr 4 18:41:35 lance kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue > Apr 4 18:41:35 lance kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode > enabled? > > Those NMI and IRQ-party goes on at an rate of one event every two > minutes. > > Will it wreck my system or can I ignore it? It's not good, but it's what I might expect on the Gigabyte motherboards. I've not heard much good about them, instead I've heard about BIOS bugs, memory problems, etc. > This appeared exactly when I replaced my old Ultra-Nonwide IBM-DCAS > with two Ultra2-Wide DDRS-Drives and it disappears when I downgrade > again. (btw, I know, U2W doesn`t boost my UW-system, but U2W costs less > and maybe some day with my next sytem I can make use of it?) It does boost the system by having faster drives. That often times can show up marginal RAM that didn't show up with the slower drive. > The System is a GigabyteDX Dual-PentiumMMX233-System with onboard > aic7880 UltraWide. > > And an additional question: Can I use the termination of the > U2W-DDRS-Drives to terminate my bus I'm not aware of any U2W drives that have termination built in. Only term power at most, not the actual terminators. > or is LVD/U2W-termination an evil > thing at an SE/UW-bus? Almost all LVD terminators will automatically detect and terminate a SE bus when it exists. > I already tested it both ways, but for now I use > an extra SE/UW-terminator. -- Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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