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SubjectRe: linux 2.2.1 crashing frequently

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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