Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:15:24 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Problem: Floppy drive[?] hang |
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, C. D. Thompson-Walsh wrote:
> [This sortof follows the format of the report form in REPORTING-BUGS] > 1. I've found a consistent set of circumstances which will hang 2.4.x kernels > on my system. > > 2. If the system is put under load to the point where it swaps heavily > (swapping appears to be pre-requisite, based on a little messing about), and > then given commands to use the floppy drive (mount, ls -- anything which > necessitates reading/writing to the floppy), it will hang with no message (it > does not OOPS, or at least it can not to the root console) I've done this > several times, with different disks and kernels, with and without X.
Hi,
I tried to reproduce this on my PIII-500 VIA chipset box and couldn't. (problem doesn't seem to be generic fwiw)
-Mike
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