[ILUG] disabling IRQ and SATA - Solved

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, kevin wrote:

> drive for a SATA card (SI 3112 based) and a SATA drive. Then I was plagued
> with "disabling IRQ16" messages scrolling past the screen like crazy. I moved

> stable with no disabling IRQ messages. My next stop will be to download a
> 2.6.7 kernel and try that.

What kind of video card?

Does your BIOS have an option for "Assign IRQ for VGA" or similar? 
see what happens if you set it to disable/no.

And try booting with noapic in the kernel arguments.


> Kevin.

regards,
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