APIC, NMI Watchdog

[Federico Sevilla III <jijo@leathercollection.ph>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 at 20:10, Seth Mos wrote:
> In that case I am going to add a note to the FAQ that it might be
> dangerous because the 3ware cards and 1.0 and 1.0.1 will probably not
> like each other if you switch it on. I will add a note that 2.4.9 and
> latter might work better then it does with the older kernel.

I am not quite sure if it happens with _all_ 3ware cards. Dan Yocum, who
does more tests and has access to a wider variety of 3ware controllers,
might want to corroborate my statements first before you add that FAQ
entry.

Aside from NMI Watchdog and the 3ware controller, it _might_ have been
APIC (which is a prerequisite of the NMI Watchdog support) for
uniprocessors and my VIA chipset.

So many possibilities. Sometimes I wonder why I have both APIC and NMI
Watchdog enabled. ;>

But just in case you want to know what happened circa 2.4.6 to 2.4.8:

 o 2.4.6 ~ 2.4.7 (estimates, I'm not quite sure _when_ it started
   because my drive didn't fail with every kernel increment): data
   corruption that had to be xfs_repair'd. I sent e-mail to the list
   about this.

 o 2.4.8: system freeze but no data corruption. I didn't send e-mail to
   the list about this but just rebooted the machine.

 --> Jijo

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