| From: Robert A. Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| I have a new dual-celeron 550 system I just got running with a Abit BP6
| motherboard and two IBM IDE Hard drives attached to the 33mb chain. I am
| using Redhat 6.0 as my base due to difficulties with getting 6.1 to
| install.
Interesting. I have a BP6 with two C300a CPUs, overclocked to 450
(considered pretty safe), and an IBM 13G 7200 RPM drive. It has been
installed and running for a couple of months with RH6.0, but I haven't
put it into service for various reasons.
Anyway, a couple of days ago, I heard the HD spind down and up again.
When I looked on the console, I saw "hda: lost interrupt". This is
from memory because I didn't see it in /var/log/messages.
Since then, I've put heat-sink compound (AKA thermal grease) on the BX
chip (as recommended by many bp6 sources -- see www.bp6.com). And, as
I type this, I'm loading RH6.1 (with updates).
The linux-kernel mailing lists have reported problems with ide VS smp
in 2.2.12 at least. I'm not sure when those problems showed up, nor
an I sure that they are fixed now; most likely they are present in the
kernels shipped with RH6.0 and RH6.1. Red Hat has not released an
update for the kernel in RH6.1, and the stock kernels are different
from Red Hat's in ways that I haven't investigated (I suspect that Red
Hat's has some value added by A. Cox). Summary: I'm confused and
awaiting dust to settle, but I'm not sure that I'll know when that has
happened.
You should now be able to infer a couple of reasons that I have not
put my system into service.
Hugh Redelmeier
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