Hi, Noah! Thanks for your comment. I went to the closet and took old VGA card out. Unfortunately it did not help. Swapping cables, moving cards around does not help either. I can reproduce the problem if I try to move 1Gb of data from one place into another. Windoze does it, but Linux gets stuck somewhere in the beginning.
Strange thing that I found a couple of messages blaming PA-2013, and people switch to Tyan, and it seemed to help, despite the fact that both motherboards carry exactly the same VIA chipset. It smells like bad motherboard. Thanks again, Sasha. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > > MB : FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) > > CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. > > HD : IBM 15 Gb > > CD : CD-DVD Toshiba > > Sound : SB live (value) > > Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 > > Modem : Actiontech PCI > > Linux : Debian Slink installation > > I've got many of these same components...PA2013 board, K6-II 450. The > notable difference is the video board (mine is a 3dfx voodoo3). All this > hardware is supported fine by Linux, with only possible exceptions being > the modem (PCI modems are usually not compatible) and the video board (I'm > just saying that as a disclaimer, since I don't know anything at all about > it.) > > I am inclined to believe that you are in fact facing some kind of hardware > problem that windows is able to ignore for some reason. Nothing on your > hardware list should be crashing Linux if it's working properly. I would > try swapping some stuff out with different, similar hardware. Try > different HD cables, a different disk, a different video board. It might > even be the motherboard. > > You might also want to try running your hard drive on your secondary IDE > controller, and disabling the primary controller in the BIOS. It could be > that one of the controllers is bad but the other is OK. > > I had to RMA my PA2013 after experiencing some strange crashes in > Linux. Disk IO would stop working completely. If i left procmeter > running, I could try to run a program and watch the system load increment > by one with each new process I tried to start. The only way out of this > state was to reboot. I still don't know what caused it, but replacing the > motherboard fixed the problem... > > Hope this helps you. > > noah > > > PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3a > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBOFVZQIdCcpBjGWoFAQHL1wP/XLAX4G35bYLZ5ffr9hUBL1EDdLTQx2Ni > Mt+gTeZgxBOCvCBYB8DE9qt9DRr33y3usNKUsdHyFmEeCJSL3DVh0kroQS6UWWwt > T9+DPsxaclCLZCBQEDjG788fGm4rgOcrG1AtL0/55EBGNsP2FUNzziSxnfmE6TvH > dehk6BeIrQ4= > =c6kU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
