[Mailinglist] Soft Lock on CPU

[Rajeev]

Thank you, David.

- Rajeev
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Desrosiers" <daviddes at us.ibm.com>
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Sent: 06 August, 2006 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailinglist] Soft Lock on CPU


> 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
>
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