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SubjectRe: Hangs in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-pre5 (IDE-related?)
Hi,

I started getting similar hangs with a PII4X board and an old QUANTUM
Pioneer SG 2.1A, around 2.4.18-10 (RH). Didn't happen with vanilla 2.4.18
& before, still happened with vanilla 2.4.19.

I could reproduce it by writing big files to the disk (consistently if
transfering them from the network - RTL8139, 100BaseT). Like you've
described, the HDD LED remained lit.

Strangely, the machine kept "some" functionality: It's a firewall/NAT
machine, and this kept working, hitting Return on an already opened shell
brought the next line prompt, etc. Trying anything requiring disk access
would hang. No core dumped, no log messages (of course, since the disk
couldn't be written).

I ended up changing a BIOS setting : PCI Latency timer from 32 to 128 PCI
clocks. (I've loaded the BIOS defaults, and "0" came up. Things got really
worse, so just went the other way - didn't try intermediate values though).

It's working fine now. I'd just like to understand why. I suppose
something got slower, but I couldn't notice (it's just a
firewall/NAT/web/mailserver, and the outside link is just 64k).

If you have this setting on the BIOS, give it a try.

Joao
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