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From: Stephane Chauveau <s.chauveau@chello.nl>
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Subject: Re: EXT3 - freeze ups during disk writes
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Hi,

this is a reply for the thread started by Erik Elmore on Dec 02 2001.

I experienced the same problem today after switching from a customized
kernel (2.4.17) to the official debian kernel (2.4.18). During intensive
ext3 disk writes, the PC freezes each 4 or 5 seconds.

The generic debian kernel does not enable dma by default. I solved the
pb with hdparm. 
S.