Re: Possible IDE related crash on 2.4.18-rc4?

[Jeff Lessem]

In your message of: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:01:26 PST, you write:
>i don't know if this is the same...but i have the same
>dell inspiron 5000 for work and i was having this same
>problem...the guys from dell did all of the
>troubleshooting that i could bare...from having me
>remove my hardrive and cd which provided temporary
>fixes...in the end dell replaced my motherboard and i
>have not had any more problems.

That is interesting, I had the motherboard on my machine replaced
several weeks ago to correct a problem where it would not switch from
one battery to the other.  BTW, it looks like the battery problem was
not fixed.  The hard disk problem could be related to the motherboard
swap, though the machine has been completely stable under 2.4.17 since
the motherboard was replaced.

I hate intermittent errors like this, because the problem might exist
under 2.4.17, but for whatever reason I am unlikely enough to hit it
that I can get 10 days of uptime.  Even under 2.4.18-rc4, I have had
uptimes ranging from 24 hours to 30 minutes.

--
Jeff Lessem.