Re: kernel 2.4.12 kills ide drives
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:28:01PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Oh my, this is very interesting. I just upgraded a dual-Celeron system
> from 2.4.9 to 2.4.17 last week, and it did the same thing to one of my
> drives! This would be a very serious kernel bug...
>
> What kind of controller is this on? My drive that failed was on an HPT366.
On a Celeron system? Well, I'll take back all those nasty things I said
about the Alpha and if a bit ZOT hits some ex-DEC employees, sorry about
that...
It has the standard PC164SX controller which is CY82C693.
Definitely a kernel problem. I have not have ONE ide sqeak since then.
I just don't know why it suddenly decided to play up two days ago.
- Craig
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