On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:10:38AM -0600, Dave Cowern wrote:
Hey all,
I've found some interesting news on the kernel issue I've been working on
with my machine. Last week, Promise submitted a kernel patch fixing
stability issues with its ATA133 controllers and the linux kernel. The
thread from the linux.kernel mailing list can be found here on deja:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8f9d77d79e1e2056
This discussion, mainly between a Promise developer and Alan Cox seems to
have a lot to do with the non-existant stability I've been experiencing with
2.4.18. Some of Red Hat's developers have also weighed in on this. Maybe
Mandrake should look into it as well. This issue is only going to get bigger
and bigger as more and more ATA133 drives hit the market. -- Dave
I've been running a Promise ATA/133 controller for the past month on the
cooker kernels. 2.4.17-7mdk - 2.4.18-5mdk. I've had ocassional kernel
oopses. But they seem to be unrelated to a network module and not the
Promise ATA/133. Since upgrading to 2.4.18-5mdk I haven't had any
oopses. However these oopses seem to be rather random and hard to track
down so I'm not sure that it's been fixed.
--
Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ben.reser.org
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
