Just tried 2.1.98, went fine for the most part of it. Some unresolved syms
(bttv, and two more, I can't remember), but running with SMP=1.
Now for the bad news: if I try to make boot disks from cdrom:
dd if=/mnt/cdrom/blah/diskimage.bin of=/dev/fd0 (1)
then a hard lock occurs. No SysRq, no Alt+F1, no anything. It's just the same
from inside X than using a VC.
Another issue (2): from 2.1.89 (at least), I can't read a CD from my TEAC
CD-R55S (SCSI CD-R writer), connected to a NCR53C810, using xcdroast 0.96d-b4.
2.0.33 goes fine for that. 2.1.9[56] tend to lock themselves.
(1) tested on the following machine: P200, ASUSP55T2P4 mainboard (HX chipset),
IDE HD, ZIP and CD-ROM, 3.5 standard 1.4M floppy.
(2) tested on the following machie: P120, ZIDA STX5 mainboard (TX chipset),
IDE HD, SCSI CD-R, NCR53C810 SCSI controller.
Both configurations: 2.1.98 SMP, modular kernel, UP computers.
Hope this helps to somebody with debugging. I have read many messages about
problems with the NCR boards, but they seem to have stopped, so I ask for
advice in order to determine if I have a troubled computer or so.
Thanks for reading.
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