On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:10:38AM -0600, Dave Cowern wrote: > Hey all, > I've found some interesting news on the kernel issue I've been working on > with my machine. Last week, Promise submitted a kernel patch fixing > stability issues with its ATA133 controllers and the linux kernel. The > thread from the linux.kernel mailing list can be found here on deja: > > http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8f9d77d79e1e2056 > > This discussion, mainly between a Promise developer and Alan Cox seems to > have a lot to do with the non-existant stability I've been experiencing with > 2.4.18. Some of Red Hat's developers have also weighed in on this. Maybe > Mandrake should look into it as well. This issue is only going to get bigger > and bigger as more and more ATA133 drives hit the market. -- Dave
I've been running a Promise ATA/133 controller for the past month on the cooker kernels. 2.4.17-7mdk - 2.4.18-5mdk. I've had ocassional kernel oopses. But they seem to be unrelated to a network module and not the Promise ATA/133. Since upgrading to 2.4.18-5mdk I haven't had any oopses. However these oopses seem to be rather random and hard to track down so I'm not sure that it's been fixed. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
