Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.21-git oops

["Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

Hi Srihari,

On 06/05/07, Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> [Sorry to reply to my own email, but I had some good development on this
> problem]
>
> --- Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > Here's the first one (there a couple following this;
> > the complete dmesg is at the bottom of this email):
>
> It turns out the system is no go with 4 GB of RAM (4 * 1 GB modules): system
> instability & SATA controller doesn't detect the drives (as I reported to
> linux-ide:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg06174.html).
>
> With only 2 GB of RAM (with either pairs), system is very stable (surviving
> many parallel kernel compiles for over 3 times longer than that of 4 GB), and
> it detects & works fine with the SATA drives also.
>
> Any advice on getting all of 4 GB to work reliably with SATA also?
>
> Thanks
>
> PS: Here's a dmesg of the all stably working 2 GB system, & the oopsy one with
> 4 GB.
>

This looks like a bad RAM problem too me. Check the RAM memory
http://www.memtest.org/

(Removed from the list of known regressions
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions)

Regards,
Michal

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