>>>>> "L" == Luc Stepniewski <lstep@free.fr> writes:
L> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Agus Budy Wuysang wrote:
>> Valentijn Sessink wrote:
>> > These are the final results on my quest for the BP6 mobo bug. I'm tired
>> > of it for a while - so back to real work now ;)
>> > On the Abit BP6 motherboard, I can reproduce a hang of the HPT366
>> > controller. This is probably a hardware problem; however, it seems a
>> > hardware problem for many BP6 motherboards. Hereby find some details. If
>> > it's just a silly hangup of the motherboard: too bad. But maybe someone
>> > can do something with the information I found.
>> According to the abit newsgroup, this is a known hardware flaw with the
>> HPT366 controller and the Maxtor drives.
L> Are IBM HDD made by Maxtor ?
L> I'm using a BP6 with 2x433 Celeron, with kernel 2.2.14 without any problem.
L> I'm using a 22Gig IBM HD, on the first two IDE connectors (not UDMA66).
L> BUT when I try the 2.3.99pre3 kernel, I have some horrible problems :-(
L> It boots until the login prompt, I enter my login, but It never gives me
L> a chance to enter my password. It is as if the HD crashed, but there are
L> no kernel panic or any information of any problem anywhere.
L> Sometimes it locks before finishing the boot process.
L> When I reboot with my old kernel (2.2.14), I get a lot of corrupted files,
L> so it may show the HD has stopped brutally. So I'm locked with my 2.2.14
L> kernel and cannot upgrade to 2.3.x kernels :-(
Hmmm, I have no problem running 2.3.x kernels on my Abit BP6,
currently 2.3.99-pre3. No overclocking. I am running the QQ beta
BIOS, which seems to have eliminated the hardware-caused SMP
lockups. IBM and Quantum IDE drives, not using the UDMA66 connectors.
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