Re: 2.4.19 IDE Partition Check issue

Alan Cox
2002-08-03T16:39:25Z

On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 17:37, alien.ant@ntlworld.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I attempted to upgrade from 2.4.18 to 2.4.19 today but one of machines repeatedly hangs at the "Partition check" on the IDE drives.
>
> The machine is a Compaq Proliant 800 Pentium III SMP box with a Highpoint 370 IDE controller. I attempted several reboots with the check continually failing. Rebooting back to 2.4.18 removed the problem.
>
> Searching the archive I note several other people have had this problem with 2.4.19-pre kernels but, as yet, there seems to be no resolution?
>
Can you try 2.4.19-ac1 once I upload it. That has slightly further
updated IDE code and it would useful to know if the same problem occurs