Okay, Got 3 Neo3 Platinum boxes on BIOS 1.B. The two 64 bit Gentoo boxes are running clean with 2.6.9-r9 gentoo sources. One has the dual core upgrade and its very very nice! Played with lots of different kernels including gentoo-sources 2.6.14 and vanilla-sources 2.6.14 on the single core box and they all hang like the 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 kernels.
If I can find about 8 hours, I can probably isolate the kernel code change(s) that causes the freeze on this MBoard and float a patch into 2.6.14 and see if some kernel guys can study it. The third box is a windoze XP and it occasionally needs the keyboard unplugged and replugged after the BIOS starts. This looks like a hardware issue because it happens with BIOS 1.3, 1.8 and 1.B and occurs far before the bootloader gets going. I'm off to Frys because the dual core box has a stuck chipset fan. Might as well buy 3 replacements, one for each board. --- Nuitari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, the old BIOS works with all versions of the > kernel > > going back a year. The new BIOS doesn't work with > > kernel 2.6.11 and 2.6.12. > > > > Anyone familiar with the recent changes to libata > or > > nv_sata drivers? > > No, but I know that there are fixes related to > nv_sata in 2.6.14, so it > might work again. > > "sata_nv: Fixed bug introduced by 0.08's MCP51 and > MCP55 support" > (the bug seems to have been introduced earlier in > 2.6.14 development. > > "[PATCH] Add NVIDIA device ID in sata_nv" > > There is also a fix atapi_packet_task vs intr race > (take 2) which is way > too technical for me to understand before getting a > good night of sleep. > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- [email protected] mailing list
