Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 14:00:29 EST


> After I did put in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks
> USE_DMA=1
> my system did crash very badly, I guess after my hard disks did wake up

So you forced DMA on

> BTW: my motherboard runs at 112 Mhz, overclocked, was 100 Mhz.

and ran overclocked

> Been running this configuration over more than 2 years now without such
> major problems.
> Could this be the cause?

Quite possibly. There are reasons we ignore bug reports from overclockers

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