Re: Hard Lock-Up Problems

1999-05-01 Thread Matthew Tuck
"James M . Mastros" wrote: > 1) Are their any unusual noizes noticable either during or slightly before >this lockup? Not unusual as such, like say the sound of a HD crashing (been through that) but there is a reproducible pattern. There is usually a heavy disk load (possibly this just makes

Re: Hard Lock-Up Problems

1999-04-25 Thread James M . Mastros
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 09:23:08PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote: > I'm suspecting something doesn't either like a specific disk position or > consecutive positions, or a specific stream of bytes. I'm looking at > either hardware, kernel or cmos settings. Having had problems like this before, I'd ask:

Hard Lock-Up Problems

1999-04-25 Thread Matthew Tuck
About a month and a half ago I installed Debian Potato on my Cyrix 686-150(200) system with 32Mb of each of RAM and swap. My experience has been fairly positive, but I am having an extremely annoying problem with hard lockups. I quickly determined that these lockups seemed to be reproducible. Ce