Re: Bummer...

[Greg from Systems]

This is the kind of problem I have been experiancing.
It either hangs on boot, or in a compile...
However I am using an NCR 810 and a scsi disk..
My board is the Compaq PC164 {some nasty partnumber}

The Servers all have the Qlogic ISP controller for the main disk.

both setups have only the boot disk on the boot controller, no other
devices....

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, John Jasen wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Greg from Systems wrote:
> 
> > I've been playing with the 2.4.0 kernel scince you gave me the patch for
> > the alphas...
> >
> > What I have found is that it tends to randomly hang...
> > No Panic, no OOPs, no nothing...
> > The machine is a PC164, Which falls under the EB164 class.
> > It exhibits this behaviour on both the "generic" and "eb164" cpu types
> > {compile option}  It doesn't even boot compiled as pc164..
> > I'm also seeing this problem on my A/S 4100, "Rawhide"..
> 
> I've been having IDE problems under alpha (API UP1100 motherboard) with
> the ALI M1535D pci-isa bridge/ide controller and the AIC7xxx drivers.
> Under 2.4.0, any heavy disk access "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null" will
> immediately lock the system, and under 2.4.1, it won't finish booting ...
> 
> --
> -- John E. Jasen ([e-mail])
> -- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.
> 

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