Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 06 Mar 1999 18:38:48 -0500 | From | Douglas Gilbert <> | Subject | Re: ppp & IDE problems on 2.2.2 ac7 :( |
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> I found a bad problem today. I launched a cdparanoia rip of a > cd while i was online on a ppp link. ppp hung and it began to report frame errors > then i stopped the cdparanoia session and everything came back to normal : > I t seems that when i access the ide bus heavily, ppp suffers a lot and starts giving > > errors. > I tried to set umaskirq on all drives, but that did not help. > my configuration is a P200mmx, with ide drives, HX chipset, > (DMA is enabled by default ) , kernel 2.2.2ac7. > has anyone a clue about the whole thing ? > (i did not try vanilla 2.2.2) > On the 2.0.x kernels i used a program called irqtune, > but it doesnt work anymore on 2.2.
Enrico, Is that a pure IDE rig or are you using SCSI emulation on your IDE cdrom player (which I assume is ATAPI)? If you are using SCSI emulation I may know one of the culprits :-(
Doug Gilbert
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