From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fox Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 00:17:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Basic Advice Needed Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:14:10AM -0600, Van Maren, Kevin wrote: > Use the latest Adaptec driver from Justin Gibbs. There was a bug in the > early 39-bit DMA support that caused the kernel to crash periodically > [if the address just happened to overlab the swiotlb in the low 32 bits]. > > He incorporated my fix in Change 420: I appreciate your work on tracking down these hardware problems, and everyone else who responded. Well, the end (for now) of this story is that the seller was mistaken about the DIMM configuration of the machine, and so it was not worth the money I was paying for it because I could not upgrade the RAM without yanking existing DIMMs. So I canceled my order, although the last thing I was hearing was that the Debian disc was working, perhaps because it uses a newer version of the kernel (2.4.17 according to the docs), incorporating bug fixes to drivers (like the one Kevin submitted) and the like. I still have an unmet computational need, and I may have to get another Itanium; and if I do so I'll put Debian on it, unless of course other distributions upgrade their versions with newer kernels. :) If anyone is working on the Debian distro, one minor problem you might fix is that the iso image does not uncompress properly on a Windows machine. -- ------------------------ Jeremy T. Fox jerfox@stanford.edu