> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> >
> > There are changes in the current development cvs tree which may fix this,
> > we know that it is not bug free right now, and are working on it. In the
> > meantime, could you possibly try a kernel built from the development tree
> > and let us know if you can hang it in the same way.
> >
> > Steve
>
> I have just downloaded this new cvs tree, and it is running now on a
> pentium II/128M/PIIX and PDC2xxx both drives are maxtor. I will let you
> know, if it does hang, I plan to try the 2.4.pre-3 patch which was
> suggested by both Scott Hoffman and Krzysztof.
I am attempting to merge 2.4.2-pre3 at the moment, and am running into
difficulties with the ide code - the changes in our tree and the changes
in Linus's tree do not like each other at the moment. I would hold off
on attempting to use this right now - unless you understand the ide code
very well ;-)
Steve
>
> The strange thing is, the brand new test machine I built on thursday,
> (athalon 1000,512M,20G and 80G maxtor drives, via and promise
> controllers) using the install RPM from the iso distribution...is running
> like a champ. I just checked and it has not crashed since late
> thursday. Would it be possible for you to email me the .config for your
> default install (or tell me how to generate it from the iso image), then
> I can compare what I have turned on that the install does not.
>
> I am tending to think this is more a 2.4X problem than an xfs problem.
> All my machines running 2.2.16-3 (with the appropriate ide patches from
> hendrick so I can have multicount and dma on the ide drives) run my
> little stress test fine (by fine I mean if my stress test runs from Friday
> night when I go home till Monday morning when I get back).
>
> Thanks
>
> Sean Dougherty
> Manager of way too much
> TTUHSC At Amarillo
>
> ps..for the group: With reguards to Seth Moss comment about the speed of
> NT...my experience has shown that pretty much a trained monkey with an
> etch-a-sketch is faster than an NT box :-)
>
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