On an LX-164, RH 6.2. It started life with 128MB and an IBM SCSI 4.5GB
drive. I added an IBM 40.1 GB IDE drive and 2x128 MB SDRAMs. Aside from
the terrors of getting disk geometry right -- IBM sure didn't, I have
gotten hard crashes (without log entries). So far, I cannot reliably
reproduce the crash. These seem to occur when I copy large files (100BM)
from the SCSI disk to the IDE. From the /dev/hda device mountpoint
(/whatever), I can fill IDE disk partitions (cat /dev/zero >junk) without
mishap.
I don't have large file support compiled into the kernel, but the kernel
and disk utilities seem to be handling files > 2GB.
Since this is a Samsung processor/ MB, the company providing memory wanted
pages from the MB manual, which I faxed (chip set information, memory
information). The memory shipped is Kingston labelled for the machine. I
assume therefore that memory timing is correct.
I have only got a couple of hours of "normal" work on the machine since
changes. I don't have time to go through crashes, fsck rituals right now.
I am hoping someone has relevant experience (or useful suggests).
-- Mark Hansel PO Box 41 Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, MN 56563 ph: 218-236-2039 fax: 218-236-2593 hansel@mnstate.edu http://wwwcj.mnstate.edu- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
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