problem with nVidia nForce CK804 SATA300 controller

[Patrick Lamaizière]

Le Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:34:35 -0300,
JoaoBR <joao at matik.com.br> a écrit :

> my amd64 crashs under heavy disk i/o as each night at 0300 daily
> cron, also often after some minutes when compiling world. Also with
> kde and after some flash videos (youtube) or large file copying
> 
> I do not see this problem with other sata controllers or same
> hardware and a scsi adapter and this sata disabled what makes me
> believe it is related to this specific sata controller
> 
> this sata controller is part of some ASUS (M2N SLI Deluxe) or Epox
> AM2 MBs
> 
> there is no panic at all, some seconds of hard freeze, on desktop
> machine the mouse still moves some seconds and reset, no log either,
> no crash dump, nothing
> 
> I have no irq conflict, latest bios onboard, I also exchanged other
> hw parts with no success.
> 
> Any idea?

I've seen this kind of thing on the nvidia chipset, could you try
without apic ? I'm not sure if you can disable the apic on amd64.

It is just an idea!