On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Juergen Bierlein wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> i also have an PC164 Borad at home and am having the same problems over
> three years.
> At the moment (with kernel 2.2.14) i cannot access my SCSI-tape. I also
> have problems with my ISDN-card. The kernel locks completely over some
> indeterminsitic time.
> I tried to put some debug lines in the kernel but failed to get some
> info about the cause of the hangups.
Which SCSI card are you using?
> A kernel which works for me for some time is 2.2.12pre12.
> May be it is an fired interrupt which is not caught directly by the
> kernel.
>
> I also thougth that the powersupply would get some peaks from the
> powerline. So i put an USV in front of the box but nothing changed.
> Next i will try to remove some devices (harddisks and CDROM) from the
> box and put them in an external case. If that wont't work i will change
> the powersupply.
>
> But one point makes me think. I have installed NT on the same machine
> and it works hours without any problems. So i think i might be a kernel
> problem.
Sorry, but NT running for a couple of hours is not very conclusive.
I know of a certain machine that would run NT for days doing nothing, with
5 seconds of starting a graphic intesive app (take MS's HCT for example)
it would blue screen.
> I have written sometimes to the linux newsgroups but there was no direct
> solution for our problem. I thought i was the only one but that
> obvoiusly was not true.
>
--rdp
Rich Payne
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