On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:29:09AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.com> [2002.11.27.0059 +0100]:
> > I've seen similar things on my Dell I4000 - but only after using hotswap
> > - e.g. removing the cd-rom drive. Same symptoms. I learned the hard way
> > to make sure that I rmmod'ed ide-cd *before* removing the cdrom drive.
>
> I know the symptoms of such action, but this is not comparable. The
> characters are lacking only every so often, and the "freezes" are at
> most 2 seconds in length - when I'd pull out my CD-ROM and the IDE
> driver would look for it, that could take minutes...
Bad luck for you :-) For me the system would freeze less than .5
seconds every 3 or 4 seconds. Just enough to make me wonder whether I
was given de-caf by mistake...
--
Karl E. Jørgensen
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"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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