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DateFri, 24 Apr 1998 10:27:43 -0700
FromBill Broadhurst <>
SubjectRe: Linux-2.1.98..
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 01:06:30PM -0300, F Harvell wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 1998 01:13:22 PDT, Bill Broadhurst wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:30:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > I just released a fairly small patch to 97 to bring it up to 98.
> > 
> > Seems to break my BusLogic controller.  Hangs right after the floppy where it 
> > would normally start the SCSI messages.  Hard hang.  
> 
>   Similar thing here.  Two observations: 1) The hang was right after the "Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M", but before the "FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077" message.  (Actually, I can't for sure remember if the first message had the fd1 identified.)  It appears that it is not even getting to the BusLogic probe.  2) I was able to do a three finger reboot.  This indicates that it wasn't a completely hard lockup.
> 
>   I'm looking into it.  If anyone finds a solution, please let me know.
> 
> 

Let it sit awhile.  You'll eventually get more messages. See my post 
to Linus and list.  

-bb


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