2009/7/9 Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>: > Hi, > > I just want to warn everybody about the 2.6.30 kernel > (gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2) > > First, it seems to run fine on modern hardware with SATA drives > (AMD64 in my case) > > BUT, on two old machines with SMP and IDE drivers (different > controllers) the kernel randomly hangs and what is worse, > it has destroyed a filesystem in such a way that even fsck > (from a rescue cd with an 2.6.29 kernel) hangs. > I had to make a pristine filesystem on that partition. > > There are some reports on the kernel mailing list and the > kernel bug tracker which talk about similar problems > on some hardware. > > If some has more news (e.g. on how to fix that) > I'd be very interested. > Thanks, > Helmut.
Thanks for the warning Helmut. I am still trying to get the 2.6.29 to work on my old laptop and was hoping that the 2.6.30 would offer a fix, but from what you are saying it may be a retrograde step in old hardware like mine. -- Regards, Mick
