On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:35:01 -0400 Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I recall correctly, the on-board IDE chipset on the beige G3 can't > handle more than one hard disk. Lost interrupts were one of the > symptoms. So this would be the problem... the "developer notes" on the G3 do mention that ide1 is for a cdrom, but I would have expected otherwise. Anyway, this seems plausible: the disk works fine out of the mirror -- I guess the G3 doesn't handle very well simultaneous writes... > The best way to handle multiple hard disks is to get a good cheap IDE > PCI card. I do have an old Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter, which worked fine in a mirror setup (hda/sda), except I experienced random freezes at the command line... I thought the kernel didn't handle very well the differing speeds of the drives, that's why I added a second IDE. Maybe I'll be able to get better results by returning to this setup. I'll try that again. Anyway, thanks for the information Simon -- Simon Vallet Due to massive spam, the address shown in the From: header only accepts mail from Debian hosts. If you wish to mail me privately, just use the 'user' local part. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
