would be helpful if you specified what kind of MB you have with what kind of controller, and what brand/type of HD, on the linux-kernel mailing list the IDE guy has cursed Western Digital drives for not behaving in a sane manner when doing DMA transfers. and for causing major problems when WD drives are mixed with other drives.
nate Julio Merino wrote: > > Hi all, > > In another message I explained that my system crashed when playing > with apm/noflushd and then woody was broken. Well, I think the problem > is not about the disk filesystem because it now seems ok (no symlinks, > bad names, bad sizes, etc). > > I've bought (at last! :) a new 20 GB drive, partitioned it and > installed the base potato. Everything seemed ok, but it randomly > crashes with a kernel panic (as happens with woody). I haven't still > installed the standard system (I'm downloading the packages). > > So, I have take out all isa and pci cards leaving only the graphics > one. I have also unplugged all the hard disks, leaving only the new > potato one and I have take out my memory dimms and put on another time > (I have 128 MB in 3 dimms, 2x32 mb and 1x64 mb); now, I only have 64 > mb because I have unplugged the 64 mb dimm. I also have 200 mb of > swap, that I have tried also to disable. > > Everything of this is running on a Pentium II 233 Mhz, that I have > overclocked to 262 Mhz several months ago without any problems. Now, I > have put it back to 233 Mhz to see if this was the problem, but it > results in the same problem. > > So, any ideas please??? > > Many thanks. > > -- > Do you really think win is easy to use? > > --------------------------------------- > Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Running Debian GNU/Linux woody > --------------------------------------- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]