Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:42:33 +0000 | From | "Roeland Th. Jansen" <> | Subject | Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, har |
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:45:06PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > I think that on BP6 hardware there is no way around except using 'noapic', > or passing board through Abit replacement program. There is only two bit > checksum which guards 8 or 22 data bits. I have no idea how frequent two > bits errors are, but, as your example shows, they definitely happen on > your hardware.
thanks for the explanation. I run noapic right now and didn't die yet. I looked at the irq stuff and decided that I probably don't need it anyways.
are there new(er) boards known that do not have this problem ? (pls reply to bengel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl)
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