Re: Mysterious hang in 2.0.0 - possibly Triton II?

Markus Gutschke (gutschk@uni-muenster.de)
16 Jun 1996 13:18:33 +0200

Peter Denison <peterd@pnd-pc.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Many thanks to thise of you that replied to my post. I've done
> some more investigating (takes time you know :-) and unfortunately the
> hang is still there.

I doubt that this helps fixing your problem, but I would like to
mention that I noticed a problem that seems to appear frequently, when
you have either Triton or Triton II based boards. As soon as the EIDE
bus gets longer than about 12", there are bound to be data
corruptions. So keep the flat-ribbon cable shorter than 12";
preferably, keep it shorter than 8". Alternatively, do not use EIDE at
all :-)

BTW, this problem is not specific to Linux. I noticed it with a Triton
I based computer that run Linux and a Triton II based computer that
usually runs W95.

Markus

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