On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:31:52 -0700 (MST) Clayton Knight
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I had a friend who was having problems such as this, i.e. somewhat
> random lockups of the system.  What he found out was that he had an
> older Western Digital drive on the IDE bus that he originally was using
> for swap and later wasn't even using the drive.  As long as the drive
> was on the IDE bus he had problems and when he removed the drive the
> system became significantly more stable.

Just finished installing LM8.2 on a system which had an old ~300MB WD HD
as a W98 swap disk...  the install would never get past the first few
seconds until I disconnected it.  So even older WD drives suck...

Pierre

> What I am saying is that you may indeed have some type of drive issue
> here.  I personally won't buy Western Digital drives for a LINUX box.
> 
> -Clayton
> 
> bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > reading the home page it seems that it is primarily a cpu loader,
> > while i 
> > will try this the cpu/mobo combo in my box are a known entity as they
> > were 
> > the basis of my main box before i upgraded just recently, i used
> > extraneous 
> > hardware to make up a new box and i'm wondering if there isn't
> > something 
> > amiss with say, the disks or something
> > 
> > bascule
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 2:16 am, you wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Cpuburn loads the whole system to the max
> > >
> > >   http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/
> > 
> > -- 
> > "Oh no, not again." 
> > 
> > - A bowl of petunias on it's way to certain death. 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
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