Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would stick to Intel PCI chipsets. Not sure if your motherboard supports or not do you have the latest

RE: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-20 Thread Christopher Michaels
]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Soft-updates feedback Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would stick to Intel PCI chipsets. Not sure if your

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-20 Thread John Baldwin
On 20-Jul-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would stick to Intel PCI chipsets. Not sure if your motherboard

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
Glad that is working out for you. I am not into PCI low level bugs they are very difficult to indentify and in certain cases impossible to fix. To give you a little hint: 1.6825 May 1999 Roger Hardiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Due to differences in PCI bus implementations

Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Povolotsky
About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. The problem is: when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on secondary master, CD on primary slave), any active disk-using program (starting Netscape, starting EXMH) causes all other

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
while this is happening, what does 'iostat 1' and 'vmstat 1' tell you? On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote: About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. The problem is: when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on