[ILUG] PCI Errors, Hard drive error

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Colin O'Keeffe wrote:

> In dmesg, on boot, I have loads of these
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
>
> and
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] enabled at IRQ 5
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:01.1[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] enabled at IRQ 12
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] enabled at IRQ 12

Those aren't errors, they're informational messages about how ACPI 
has described PCI IRQ routing on your machine. Ie - perfectly normal 
on the face of it (you'd need to be a kernel PCI/IRQ guru to say 
otherwise, and have other information about your machine ;) ).

> And my machine crashed last night with Hard drive errors about bad 
> blocks!

Likely because your hard drive has bad blocks. What exactly were the 
messages?

> And I get these as well
>
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down
> el: e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

Someone pulled the cable?

> Whats going on??!?!

Your disk has bad blocks? The e100 messages - maybe someone did 
maintainance on the switch or pulled the cable? Hard to say if it its 
related without more context.

regards,
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