here is the output of my dmesg
Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003ff0000 - 0000000003ff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003ff8000 - 0000000004000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffef0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
63MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 16368
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 12272 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=1605 devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 400.908 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS
Memory: 61288k/65472k available (1410k kernel code, 3796k reserved, 1118k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 400.9364 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.2339 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1002339, slice: 501169
CPU0<T0:1002336,T1:501152,D:15,S:501169,C:1002339>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: CMI8330 quirk - fixing interrupts and dma
isapnp: Card 'CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:00.1
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS5600 ATA 33 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda
io, hdb
io
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc
io, hdd
io
hda: FUJITSU MPF3102AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdb: DMA disabled
hdc: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK drive
hdd: AOPEN CD-RW CRW1632, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c03cb86c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 20015856 sectors (10248 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1245/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hdc: host protected area => 1
hdc: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [1027/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 106k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc483a000, IRQ 9
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub founf
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,5), internal journal
Adding Swap: 216836k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: AOPEN Model: CD-RW CRW1632 Rev: 1.03
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-15
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-15
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdb: No disk in drive
hdb: 123264kB, 963/8/32 CHS, 533 kBps, 512 sector size, 720 rpm
devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent, err: -17
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996
okir@monad.swb.de).
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
i tried adding pci=biosirq to the commandline start it seems to work slightly more stable now but still freezes every now and again
Anybody got any ideas??