Re: 3Ware cards on RHEL 4.2

[Jack Neely <jjneely pams ncsu edu>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:55:55PM -0400, Tom Sightler wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:38 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 at 5:36pm, Tom Sightler wrote
> > 
> > > This is going to sound like a crazy suggestion, but have you attempted
> > > to use the 'noacpi' option on boot?  It seems like I remember one issue
> > > with a Gigabyte motherboard and a 3-ware 7500 series card where the user
> > > thought it was something to do with the 3-ware driver but it turned out
> > > to be a problem with interrupt routing.
> > >
> > > It might be worth trying.
> > 
> > I was thinking of suggesting that too, but then said to myself "Nah, 
> > folks'll think I'm nuts."  ;)
> > 
> > pci=noacpi and just noacpi are probably worth trying, as is making sure 
> > your mobo BIOS is fully up to date.
> 
> BTW, is noacpi still supported?  I guess that's a pretty sad question
> since I'm the one that suggested it in the first place.  I think
> officially it's 'acpi=off' which is what I normally suggest as I can't
> find 'noacpi' mentioned in kernel-paramters.txt.  I'll admit that I have
> looked at the source yet.
> 
> Perhaps the best suggestion is to try 'pci=noacpi' and, if that still
> doesn't work 'acpi=off'.
> 
> Just to prove to myself that I wasn't crazy I found a bugzilla in the
> Kernel Bug Tracker that describes a case with nearly identical symptoms
> where acpi=off did fix it.
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1966
> 
> Later,
> Tom
> 
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Tom,

Holy mess that worked.  I used the "pci=noacpi" option.

Thanks guys!

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