Re: Intel E1000 and IDE problems

[Teodor Iacob <Teodor.Iacob@astral.ro>]

One more thing to add:

After a few of those kind of freezes the BIOS won't even recognize the
Harddisk anymore, I had to turn on the machine without the harddisk in it
then I forced the bios to update ESCD and the put back the harddrive in it
and worked. Somehow those cards affect the system anyway. ( even only in
CMOS setup )

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:22:17PM +0200, Teodor Iacob wrote:
> I found something really interesting. I am now able to reproduce problems 
> exactly at the same point:
> 
> If I boot the machine without ethernet cables connected before loading
> the kernel the machine seems to work fine for a while. If I put for
> example a crossover cable between the cards I cannot even boot the system!
> right after the kernel initialization after it starts the init I get
> IDE errors and then freezes because it cannot run the commands in
> rc.sysinit.
> 
> I have to mention I also tried the built-in driver of intel e1000.
> The 5.2.20 of course it was loaded as a module at network scripts
> initialization.
> 
> So the problems trims down to how can those NICs can affect the IDE
> only when they have cables connected ( even though without the driver
> initialization they don't have the led link on ) even without traffic
> going through them.
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:02:27PM -0800, Feldman, Scott wrote:
> > > I recently put up 2 intel network adapters:
> > > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82545EM Gigabit 
> > > Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
> > > 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82545EM Gigabit 
> > > Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
> > > 
> > > ( I replaced some Intel PRO1000 Desktop which I had before ) and now
> > > I get serious problems with the hda disk:
> > 
> > Did you put the 82545 nics in the same slots where you had the desktop
> > nics?
> > 
> > Are the 82545 nics on the same bus segment as the disk controller?  Are
> > there any shared interrupts?  See lcpci -vvv.
> > 
> > -scott
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-- 
      Teodor Iacob,
Manager Infrastructura Nationala
Astral Telecom Internet