[Mailinglist] Soft Lock on CPU

[David Desrosiers]

mailinglist-bounces at ilug-cochin.org wrote on 08/05/2006 10:00:30 PM:

> Recently, I connected  my friend's hard disk to my system as Secondary
> Master. On restart  , it (FC4) given a message like this " Soft lock 
> on CPU 0# ". What it means?
> However , the hard disk was not detected by the system.

Try plugging the secondary disk into the other power lead coming from the 
PSU. 

You probably consumed too much power on the primary line, causing other 
components to fail. I've had an SMP system in the past that would do this 
from time to time, and I noticed that it only happened when I used the 
cdrom drive. I moved the cdrom drive to the other power lead, and it never 
happened again. 


David A. Desrosiers
Linux on Power Developer Program Manager
daviddes at us.ibm.com