Re: S2464 (K7 Thunder) hangs -- some lessons learned

Paul G. Allen (pgallen@randomlogic.com)
Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:41:00 -0700

(Small note. The K7 Thunder is S2462, unless there is another, possibly
newer, version released?)

"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
>

[SNIP]
>
> OK, so the lessons here are:
>
> 1. The S2464 needs to be configured with "Use PCI Interrupt Entries In MP
> Table" for sanity to prevail, and

I have been running my K7 in this mode since purchase. Could this be why
I see no SB Live!/ EMU10K problems (though I am running 2.4.7 kernels
now)?

>
> 2. When you see a box hang that's clearly related to a daughtercard, *run*
> (do not walk) to your local /proc directory, cat /proc/pci and check out
> the IRQ assignments.

Problem is, when it does hang, I can't get there as the system is
completely locked, including ssh and telnet.

PGA

-- 
Paul G. Allen
UNIX Admin II/Network Security
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
www.akamai.com
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