> But the real problem is, that I wanted to benchmark
> the system while the scrolling continues, and issued
> a dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=32768
> command. For the second go, the system freezed like
> a good refrigerator. No kernel panic, nothing, just
> freezed. 

Try turning off ide dma and see if that helps.  You
will lose very little by turning off udma on this
system and I'll bet you end up being more stable.


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