> >> vorlon kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2.
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> Interesting -- I am getting this *exact* error (a few hundred times a
> day) on a 1.3.79 kernel.
I got this message on all kernel versions I can think of (including 1.2=
.13),=20
using an NCR 53810 SCSI controller and a AMD 2100 ethernet card. It=20
appears to be harmless but I got spurious lockups of the whole machine =
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I replaced the network card and avoided them in the future.
I'm still curious about the reason behind it.
> It was suggested (on one of the debian
> lists) that the problem was the video card I'm using.
We got this problem regardless of video cards. We always use some cheap=
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PCI cards.
We use ASUS motherboards PVI 486 SP3, PC/I 486 SP3G and TP XE 54 (don't=
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remember the exact type.
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