Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:33:10 +0000 (GMT) | From | Peter Amstutz <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.9+ extreme instability |
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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Andre M. Hedrick wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Peter Amstutz wrote: > > > Linux seems to be extremely unstable on my hardware. This seems to be a > > recent problem, I have tried 2.2.9, 2.2.10 and 2.2.11pre2 in an attempt at > > a stable system, but to no avail. My hardware specs: > > > > Tyan Tomcat IIID with SMP Pentium 200's > > NE2000 clone ethernet card > > ISA Sound Blaster 32 > > 2 GB and 4 GB IDE hard disk, floppy, IDE CD-ROM > > Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Diamond Monster 3D > > I have the identical (minus) Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Diamond Monster 3D. > You need to be able to backspeed the drives if they are UDMA drives or > cripple the ioapic by using BIOS 4.02
Um ??? They're both western digital drives, the newer one is UDMA there other isn't. What exactly is "backspeeding"? I remember when I got the 4 GB (UDMA) drive I had to do a BIOS upgrade for it to detect cleanly on bootup...
Anyway the source of the problem seems to have been poor cooling in the case (in fact, that would probably explain a _lot_ of sudden lockup-with-no-sysreq-or-anything I've had) so it's a hardware problem. False alarm, very sorry people :)
------------------ Peter Amstutz -------------------- -------------- tetron@student.umass.edu ------------- ------- http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron ------- -----------------------------------------------------
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