Re: Linux-2.1.98..

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:44:55 +0200


myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org said:
> Hi,
> Has anyone had any luck with 2.1.98 on an IDE system? It gets a null
> pointer dereference in swapper, oopses, and "Aiee, killing interrupt
> handler"s. It does that right after printing out the PIO information
> for my IDE chipset. I had no problems in 2.1.97.

I'm currently writing a CD from IDE to SCSI under 2.1.98 SMP. The simulation
write went fine, and it's 15% through the real thing.

This is AFAICR further than it got under 2.1.97, which was particularly
unstable. I'll try grabbing video when it's finished, and let you know the
results.

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