Re: Lovely crash with 2.4.2-ac24.

[Zephaniah E\. Hull]

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:31:17AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
>=20
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:46:54AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > >=20
> > > Zephaniah,
> > >=20
> > > Does this happen in a non-ac kernel?
> > > I have not updated code since around 2.4.0, but other have.
> > > You point ot a few times w/ ac18, but is there one before that which =
does
> > > not cause this to happen?
> > >=20
> > > The question is to gain isolation of the changes.
> >=20
> > I'm not sure, I did not see it on 2.4.2-ac18 until I started doing a lot
> > of X compiling, but I can't reproduce at will which makes this a little
> > harder.
> >=20
> > I could try 2.4.2 the current 2.4.3-pre kernels from Linus if that would
> > help? (Though, as I said, it seems to happen semi-randomly, though more
> > when there is heavy disk activity.)
>=20
> But hardware class and vender?

K6-2 500, the MB is a Super 7, Tyan S1590S-100.

It is a VIA Apollo 3 (MVP3) AGPset chipset, only goes up to DMA/33.

The drive is a 10G Western Digital, output from the kernel on boot up below.

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=3D=
xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=3D=
xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586b (rev 47) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hda: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3D1247/255/63, UDMA(3=
3)

If I've left anything out just ask.

Zephaniah E. Hull.

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>=20
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>=20

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