Hi, I just want to warn everybody about the 2.6.30 kernel (gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2)
First, it seems to run fine on modern hardware with SATA drives (AMD64 in my case) BUT, on two old machines with SMP and IDE drivers (different controllers) the kernel randomly hangs and what is worse, it has destroyed a filesystem in such a way that even fsck (from a rescue cd with an 2.6.29 kernel) hangs. I had to make a pristine filesystem on that partition. There are some reports on the kernel mailing list and the kernel bug tracker which talk about similar problems on some hardware. If some has more news (e.g. on how to fix that) I'd be very interested. Thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
