> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Peter Amstutz wrote:
>
> > Linux seems to be extremely unstable on my hardware. This seems to be a
> > recent problem, I have tried 2.2.9, 2.2.10 and 2.2.11pre2 in an attempt at
> > a stable system, but to no avail. My hardware specs:
> >
> > Tyan Tomcat IIID with SMP Pentium 200's
> > NE2000 clone ethernet card
> > ISA Sound Blaster 32
> > 2 GB and 4 GB IDE hard disk, floppy, IDE CD-ROM
> > Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Diamond Monster 3D
>
> I have the identical (minus) Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Diamond Monster 3D.
> You need to be able to backspeed the drives if they are UDMA drives or
> cripple the ioapic by using BIOS 4.02
Um ??? They're both western digital drives, the newer one is UDMA there
other isn't. What exactly is "backspeeding"? I remember when I got the 4
GB (UDMA) drive I had to do a BIOS upgrade for it to detect cleanly on
bootup...
Anyway the source of the problem seems to have been poor cooling in the
case (in fact, that would probably explain a _lot_ of sudden
lockup-with-no-sysreq-or-anything I've had) so it's a hardware problem.
False alarm, very sorry people :)
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