From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:12:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:11:50 -0400 Received: from [212.18.228.90] ([212.18.228.90]:18706 "HELO carrot.linuxgrrls.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:11:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3B2606CF.10003@linuxgrrls.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:10:55 +0100 From: Rachel Greenham Organization: LinuxGrrls.Org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-ac6 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: VIA KT133A crash *post* 2.4.3-ac6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This seems to just run and run... Sorry I couldn't report this earlier, but I've only just got this machine... With DMA (UDMA Mode 5) enabled, my machine crashes on kernel versions from 2.4.3-ac7 onwards up to 2.4.5 right up to 2.4.5-ac13. 2.4.3 vanilla and 2.4.3-ac6 are completely stable. -ac7 of course is when a load of VIA fixes were done. :-} Details: System is: CPU: Athlon 1.33 GHz with 266MHz FSB Mobo: Asus A7V133 with 266MHz FSB, UltraDMA100 (PDC20265 according to kernel boot messages) BIOS has been updated to latest available (massively unstable before) 512Mb PC133 RAM Voodoo 3 3Com 3C905B IBM UDMA100 41Gb Deskstar Software: SuSE 7.1 updated to current-everything SuSE default kernel and self-built kernels of various versions Symptoms: With DMA disabled, *all* kernels are completely stable. With DMA (any setting, but UDMA mode 5 preferred of course) enabled, on kernels 2.4.3-ac7 and onwards, random lockup on disk access within first few minutes of use - sometimes very quickly after boot, sometimes as much as ten minutes later given use. Running bonnie -s 1024 once or twice after boot generally excites it too. :-}. Lockup is pretty severe: machine goes completely unresponsive, Magic SysRq doesn't work. About the only thing that does still work is the flashing VGA cursor. :-) Actual tested kernels: 2.4.0.SuSE, 2.4.0 vanilla, 2.4.3 vanilla, 2.4.3-ac6 - No failure 2.4.3-ac7, 2.4.4 vanilla, 2.4.5 vanilla, 2.4.5-ac13 - Failure. -- Rachel