Bug 13137

Summary:	enabling ACPI APIC BIOS option on Asus M3A78 Pro cause disk i/o problems leading to filesystem corruption
Product:	ACPI	Reporter:	Arthur Marsh (arthur.marsh)
Component:	Config-Interrupts	Assignee:	acpi_config-interrupts
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	arthur.marsh, lenb, rui.zhang
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.26	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Arthur Marsh 2009-04-18 18:35:53 UTC

As reported at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524643 - I experienced disk i/o problems leading to filesystem corruption when I enabled the ACPI APIC BIOS option on an Asus M3A78 Pro motherboard. This was when using the 2.6.26 kernel but I do not know if other kernels are affected or not.

I am happy to provide further details and run tests, but I would appreciate some guidance to avoid corrupting the filesystem again when doing so.

Comment 1 Arthur Marsh 2009-04-18 19:43:02 UTC

I tried booting the machine with ACPI APIC enabled and suffered no disk i/o problems nor errors reported in dmesg for kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.29, so I may have to put the bug down to not having initially reset the BIOS to a known default state after a BIOS upgrade.

Thanks to those who mentioned that the BIOS option ACPI APIC should be enabled and to report a bug if ACPI APIC enabled caused problems.

Comment 2 Zhang Rui 2009-04-20 02:35:37 UTC

so reject this bug.

Arthur, please reopen it if you can reproduce the problem with ACPI APIC enabled.