Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:38:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <> | Subject | Re: linux 2.2.1 crashing frequently |
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Jose Alonso wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:15:30 +0100 (CET), Jens Glaser wrote: > >Hi, > > > >1. the 2.2.1 crashes very often on my system. 2.0.x worked flawlessly. > >The crash seems to occur with heavy disk activity (under X, or when > >using dpkg, or when fscking at bootup ..). I have an ATAPI disk. > > ... > > Try to disable the IDE DMA. > (use the command: "hdparm -d0 /dev/hda" after boot, or compile the > kernel > without IDE DMA support)
Actually, if its the DMA he would be safer if he power cycled to a non-DMA kernel instead of just rebooting or disabling DMA after boot. In my case a motherboard kept on doing funky things until I powered it down and back up.. reset didn't help.
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