Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Jun 1999 10:08:03 +0200 | From | Roland Olsson <> | Subject | Re: Simultaneous network/IDE traffic = reboot |
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John Hayward-Warburton wrote: > > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Roland Olsson wrote: > > I have found a very simple way of reproducing the crash. Just do a 'ping > > -f' to the machine for a second or so and run 'hdparm -t /dev/hda' at > > the same time. It reboots almost immediately. One more thing, if I do > > Exactly this test done to this 2.2.9 kernel (Gigabyte 586ATX2 > motherboard, similar network configuration, pinging from a separate > machine)... no problems. System stays up. > > ??? > > JHW
I believe I have found a solution to my problem. If I tell the IDE controller to use DMA for my hard drive (hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda) it seems to work just fine. I do not really understand why this works better. Can anyone explain this to me?
/Roland
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