From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262281AbTEFCtl (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 22:49:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262288AbTEFCtl (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 22:49:41 -0400 Received: from munk.apl.washington.edu ([128.95.96.184]:52166 "EHLO munk.apl.washington.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262281AbTEFCtj (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 22:49:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:19:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Dushaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Albatron KM18G PRO/RedHat 9.0 - disk errors and system seizures... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 4 May 2003, Brad Laue wrote: > Brian Dushaw wrote: > > I've installed RedHat 9.0 three times now - going on the fourth. Most > > recently I upgraded the kernel with the RedHat update, to similar effect. The > > problem seems to be two fold: system lockups and disk errors. > > The RedHat kernel is massively modified, especially in version 9.0 of > the distribution. Try a vanilla kernel and see if the system continues > to misbehave. A fourth install... I've tried the 2.4.21-rc1-acX kernel (after trials and tribulations with RedHat - the compilation kept segmentation faulting). This seems to be somewhat more stable, but still unstable. Sorry to be vague, but if I could be more specific I could probably solve the problem... I still get X-windows/ system seizures, although I can't say I have any disk errors now (except perhaps for those caused by the lockups.) I am going to try an offboard video card to see if that helps (the onboard video apparently uses system ram for its memory - I don't know if this makes a difference to linux or not). I tried using only one memory card, which did not solve the problem (i.e., twin bank memory is not the problem). Disk access is about twice as fast (~60 MB/s by hdparm -tT) now with the new kernel, if only the system were stable! I watched Lawrence of Arabia on DVD (3.5 hr movie) with this same system in Win2K without a problem, so the problem would appear to be linux OS specific. Still trolling for advice, thanks, B.D.