Re: Fw: DriveReady SeekComplete problems

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Artur Jasowicz wrote:

The more I think about it the more it seems like the system not
keeping up with the drives though. Isn't it strange that both my 2000+

It's a wild guess, but you might want to try disabling one of the
processors using 'nosmp' kernel parameter. Maybe Athlons have some issues
with SMP configuration.

Next would be testing a single drive. If the problem exists using a single
drive, you should try some other controller (I never used a HPT, but a
friend of mine has a problem with it - dunno what exactly though).

OR, having three IDE controllers sharing one IRQ just might be a problem.
I remember that on my SMP motherboards I had a lot more available IRQs
(over 25), available through APIC (whatever that is).

   D.