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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 08:54, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> - I have several boxes with decent PCI chipsets (BX, HX) but old disks.
>   With 2.5.39, they tend to spew a couple of ..._intr errors on boot.
>   (Sorry, can't be more specific right now. I won't be near those
>   boxes until Saturday.)

Thats fine. Its issuing commands the drives reject. Right now we dont do
it quietly that is all.

> - Same ..._intr errors on my 486 with a qd6580 VLB controller.
>   It also has, in post-2.5.36 kernels, an instant-reboot problem which
>   occurs whenever I pass the ide0=qd65xx kernel option required to

Seems to be specific to the 2.5.x version of the new ide so I guess its
a port error (or just bad luck it now breaks and was iffy before)

> - My Intel AL440LX box (440LX chipset, 20G Quantum Fireball) worked
>   brilliantly up to 2.5.36, but hangs *hard* with 2.5.39 as soon
>   as I tar zxf the kernel source tarball.
>   (May or may not be IDE. I'll try a minimal 2.5.39 tonight.)

Thats PIIX, which should be the most boringly stable configuration of
the lot 8(