Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10?

Brian (signal@shreve.net)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:43:47 -0500 (CDT)


On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Philip Gladstone wrote:

> It turns out that our particular problem was hardware related. In
> particular, the motherboard (ABIT BX6 V2.0) could not cope with three
> 128 Meg DIMMS inserted. Any two of the three worked just fine, but
> three in total failed. We ran the tests under 2.0.37.
>
> We are going to stick with 256 Megs and go back to 2.2.5 (complete
> reinstall) and see what happens.

I have seen this type of thing on Tyan P5 and P6 motherboards, when loaded
with memory, despite what the manual says, they can't handle it.

Brian

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