Re: system freezes w/ 2.4.7-pre4 and later

[Sven Goethel]

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On Sunday 05 August 2001 07:28, Robert Kuebel wrote:
> My system has been hanging since I switched from 2.4.7-pre3.  The
> lock-up's seem to happen during periods of disk activity. I was usually
> able to reproduce the hangs by untar-ing the kernel source a few times.
> Also, these kernels tended to hang while fsck'ing.
>
> 2.4.7-pre3 was working fine, but 2.4.7-pre4 through 2.4.8-pre3 were not.
> Also 2.4.7-ac6 froze on me.
>

well, may be a bit OT .. but:

i had the freeze in conjunction with 
	- [2.4.7-pre4 .. 2.4.7] + xfs
	- iptables
	- pppoe

now, i use:
	- 2.4.7, xfs
	- 2.4.7-ac6 patch 
	  (only the netfilter part, cause the rest is not xfs clean ..)
	- iptables
	- pppoe
and it works nice !

> I am running on an Abit KT7 and an IBM-DTLA-307045 IDE drive.
>

hmm .. may be you did some hot hdparm settings ?

how about none hdparm settings ?

how about the 2.4.7ac6 patch ?
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