Hello, These are the final results on my quest for the BP6 mobo bug. I'm tired of it for a while - so back to real work now ;) On the Abit BP6 motherboard, I can reproduce a hang of the HPT366 controller. This is probably a hardware problem; however, it seems a hardware problem for many BP6 motherboards. Hereby find some details. If it's just a silly hangup of the motherboard: too bad. But maybe someone can do something with the information I found. Kernel 2.2.14pre14 with ide.2.2.15pre13. Abit BP6 with "QQ" (beta) BIOS, 2xCeleron466, 128M, Maxtor 15G running UDMA4, Matrox G200 8Mb, SMC Epic100 NIC. The hang occurs in line 1453 of drivers/block/ide.c, the GET_STAT() macro just never returns. I tried to #define REALLY_FAST_IO and also tried SLOW_IO_BY_JUMPING, but that does not help. It seems just like the motherboard and/or processor and/or chipset freeze at the "in" instruction. I tried fiddling with the PCI settings, but to no avail. (A reboot sometimes results in the HPT366 finding a 303Mb drive with PIO-1, so there's definately something wrong with the hardware.) The lockup reproduction cmdline is: "cat /dev/hda>/dev/null&ping -f server&". As I don't know enough of motherboard hardware, there's nothing much I can do now. If anyone knows a workaround, I'd be glad to test it. Best regards, Valentijn -- -- =- To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the -= =- body of "unsubscribe linux-abit". -=
