On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:44:19PM +0300, Jussi Laako wrote:
> Seth Goldberg wrote:
> >
> > and rebooted, the system stayed up a lot longer, but it still crashed (I
> > was in Xwindows and the crash was partially written to the log file)
> > after around 3 minutes of work in X.
>
> Hmm, I'm wondering if this could be same bug that I'm seeing with ASUS
> A7V133 & Duron/800 when using IDE autotuning (PDC20265).
>
> Still haven't got any replies suggesting any reason for lockups I'm seeing
> (no oopses). Or is the Promise driver just buggy, because system is solid
> with noautotune. RAID5 (md) on that server is just little bit sluggish with
> ~1.7 MB/s transfer rate... I should have stayed with SCSI disks...
there you should find (if I'm right) somewhere mentioned that you likely
to trash your hard drives or experience random lock ups with KT133a chipset
especially if you use off-board ide controller ... As to why it happens is
beyond me to explain ...
(maybe even this doesn't apply for case).
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