Re: Linux-2.1.98..
Bill Broadhurst (bbroad@CX492564-a.dt1.sdca.home.com)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:27:43 -0700
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 01:06:30PM -0300, F Harvell wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 1998 01:13:22 PDT, Bill Broadhurst wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:30:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > I just released a fairly small patch to 97 to bring it up to 98.
> >
> > Seems to break my BusLogic controller. Hangs right after the floppy where it
> > would normally start the SCSI messages. Hard hang.
>
> Similar thing here. Two observations: 1) The hang was right after the "Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M", but before the "FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077" message. (Actually, I can't for sure remember if the first message had the fd1 identified.) It appears that it is not even getting to the BusLogic probe. 2) I was able to do a three finger reboot. This indicates that it wasn't a completely hard lockup.
>
> I'm looking into it. If anyone finds a solution, please let me know.
>
>
Let it sit awhile. You'll eventually get more messages. See my post
to Linus and list.
-bb
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