> I've been playing with the 2.4.0 kernel scince you gave me the patch for
> the alphas...
>
> What I have found is that it tends to randomly hang...
> No Panic, no OOPs, no nothing...
> The machine is a PC164, Which falls under the EB164 class.
> It exhibits this behaviour on both the "generic" and "eb164" cpu types
> {compile option} It doesn't even boot compiled as pc164..
> I'm also seeing this problem on my A/S 4100, "Rawhide"..
I've been having IDE problems under alpha (API UP1100 motherboard) with
the ALI M1535D pci-isa bridge/ide controller and the AIC7xxx drivers.
Under 2.4.0, any heavy disk access "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null" will
immediately lock the system, and under 2.4.1, it won't finish booting ...
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