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February 8, 2008
Waiting for a Shoe to Drop
After over a week of daily "hardware hiccups," I found some mail threads suggesting that the reason my hard disks were mysteriously vanishing was related to APIC I/O, so I added the "noapic" option to my boot flags and crossed my fingers.
Three days later, and the machine hasn't hiccuped once.
Andrew Morton thinks that apic handling is pretty broken, has been for a while, and isn't likely to get better (no motivation to find the problem as there exists an easy workaround).
I'd really like this to be the answer... 'cause then I could bitch about how software (even linux) sucks, and not go buy new hardware.
Posted by dberger at February 8, 2008 10:23 AM