Re: 2.1.42

Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Sat, 7 Jun 1997 13:24:07 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > The machine will hang. No interrupt activity whatsoever. Looking at
> > > IRQ0 (timer-tick) on the bus shows it permanently high. Perhaps these
> > > old machines can't use level-triggered interrupts. It worked with
> > > an old version of Linux for several years. It still worked before I
>
> Turn the DMA speed down on the card. You are starving the RAM refresh off the bus
>
I will try. I don't think the driver looks at what was set in the EEPROM. I
may have to hack.

Cheers,
DJ
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Richard B. Johnson
Analogic Corporation
Email : rjohnson@analogic.com, johnson@analogic.com
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.42 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to stay on the trailing edge of technology.
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