There is an Asrock (budget Asus) motherboard with a SiS chipset which has this problem, which is fixed by a BIOS upgrade. This may also be your solution.Hi,
I just set up a new server. It has an amd64 (3000+) chip on a asus K8V-X motherboard. I installed sarge with the 2.6.8-1-386 kernel
I set up a software raid 5 and noticed that as soon as I began resync of the raid i get errors filling the dmesg log:
APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) ... (... infinity of the last one)
I did dmesg -n 1 to get some peace and quiet on the screen for the 2 day resync of the raid and then when i rebooted the machine and started and mounted the raid and began to exercise it ( cp -a a ton of stuff to the raid) the errors began again.
I googled and saw a reference to this issue on the gentoo list with late 2.6.9 kernels and saw the solution they posted of adding the boot option "noapic". So I figured why not?
So i rebooted with noapic, and indeed the APIC errors vanished. I notice a new error message in dmesg though
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
I post this here to ask if anyone knows what is going on here and can clarify the problems.
IRQ7 on my system is the parallel port, and I think this is a known and unconnected minor bug. I think it is considered harmless.
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Joe
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