RE: boot up problem of IDE disk in 2.4.0!

2001-01-05 Thread chen, xiangping
Hi, I just tried make config, the generated .config file is the same as before. Will it bring any difference if I compile again? Thanks! Xiangping -Original Message- From: Andre Hedrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 4:35 PM To: chen, xiangping Cc: '[

boot up problem

2001-01-05 Thread chen, xiangping
Hi, Folks Another problem I meet in boot up is that the root filesystem can be mount as readonly at first, but it fails to be mounted as read/write during boot up, the error reported as: The superblock can not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. ... f

boot up problem of IDE disk in 2.4.0!

2001-01-05 Thread chen, xiangping
Hi, folks I meet some problem when I tried by install kernel 2.4.0 to a PC using IDE disk. It reports VFS panic error during boot up time when it tried to mount the rootfs. The error indicates that it can not find the driver for the harddisk, but I already build in the IDE disk support. The hard

Clock problem in Linux 2.4.0-test1 SMP?

2000-11-06 Thread chen, xiangping
Hi, Recently when I tried to test disk IO of a dual-processor PC using linux 2.4.0-test1 SMP, I found that the clock slows down. Could somebody tell me why it happened, and is there any patch for this problem? BTW, is there any good tool to measure disk IO, like "iostat" on Solaris? Thanks! X

RE: scsi init problem in 2.4.0-test10?

2000-11-02 Thread chen, xiangping
Hi, The problem got solved by replacing the AHA-3944 card to AIC-7895, thus switching the order of SCSI discovery. It seems that still a SCSI ordering problem. Thanks any way! Xiangping -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Morris-Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November

RE: scsi init problem in 2.4.0-test10?

2000-11-02 Thread chen, xiangping
Hi, Thanks for replying. What bothers me is that it works in another pc with the same setup to the external disk, but different internal scsi adaptor. So I did not think it was the kernel software caused the problem. Any other guess? Thanks, Xiangping -Original Message- From: Elizab

scsi init problem in 2.4.0-test10?

2000-11-02 Thread chen, xiangping
Hello, I met a problem when trying to upgrade my Linux kernel to 2.4.0-test10. The machine is Compay AP550, dual processor, mem 512 MB, and 863 MHZ freq. It has two scsi host adaptors. one is AIC-7892 ultra 160/m connected to internal hard disk, and the other is AHA-3944 ultra scsi connected to