Re: Complete freeze in 2.0.29

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Sat, 8 Mar 1997 11:33:03 +0100 (MET)

> > > Try running the floppy=nodma option. Just see what it does.
> > Ahem. It works with nodma.
>
> Basically what that means is your DMA or FDC is shafted somewhere. Could
> be the motherboard
>
> > I'm really wondering what's going on here... Anyone able to reproduce
> > the problem ?
>
> I've seen it a couple of times (hence the rapid guess). A mainboard swap
> seems to be the procedure if frobbing bios settings doesnt help

is there a list of main boards which are known to have this problem ?

recently I had 2 complete lockups on a dual-PPro200 machine with ELITE P6FX/2-ATX
(natoma chipset) main board while accessing floppy disks.
I'll try floppy=nodma option RSN but we're using floppies only *very* infrequently...

Harald

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