Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Nicholas Knight" <> | Subject | Fw: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x | Date | Fri, 2 Feb 2001 01:36:37 -0800 |
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oops, I forgot to send this to linux-kernel as well...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Knight" <tegeran@home.com> To: "David D.W. Downey" <pgpkeys@hislinuxbox.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:24 AM Subject: Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David D.W. Downey" <pgpkeys@hislinuxbox.com> > To: "David Riley" <oscar@the-rileys.net> > Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:51 AM > Subject: Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x > > > > Yeah, I'm seriously beginning to think it's a board specific issue. If I > > drop the RAM count down to 768MB I get far less drops in app deaths > > <....> > > >Right now I've got the full 1GB in there. What I'm seeing now is > >application deaths, occational X11 lockups, but SUPRIZE! SUPRIZE! no more > >drive corruptions since I removed the DMA flag from the drives, disabled > >DMA use in the BIOS and replaced the ATA66 cable with an ATA33. > > (the following is a lot of conjecture and doesn't wholly fit the information > avalible to me on this problem, but maybe it'll help bring about other ideas > that will lead to a fix for this) > > OK, I haven't had a chance to get 2.4 up and running yet, but yesterday I > was troubleshooting some lockup issues in Win2k and there was a slim chance > that it might have had to do with overheating of the chipset that controls > the RAM on the machine; but it turned out to be something of a driver issue. > However this got me thinking more about heat... this *really* is sounding > more and more like a heat problem to me... esspecialy if it might be board > specific, since there might be something in the specific designs that causes > higher levels of heat. > I *KNOW* that it seems unlikely since no other OS is exhibiting these > problems to my knowledge (including linux 2.2.*) but what if? Could there be > something in 2.4 making it more sensitive to errors related to heat? Could > 2.4 somehow be making the HDD controllers run hotter? > Prehaps we should start collecting average system tempatures of systems that > display this problem, esspecialy while running 2.4.x both with and without > DMA enabled. > > <end conjecture spoken by someone without enough information avalible to > him> > > -NK >
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