> Greetings,
>
> I've recently had several very solid lockups of my 2.3.5 SMP kernel
> (compiled with egcs-2.91.66).
>
> The typical situation involves these steps
>
> - First cause a lot of activity on an aha2940 connected hard disk with
> ext2fs filesystems. Typicallly a `tar cvf - xxx | gzip > yyy' on a
> +-40MB large directory tree seems to do the trick.
>
> - Then access a vfat filesystem on an Iomega ZIP disk connected to an
> Iomega aha152x clone. Most of the time I was trying to copy the file
> created during the first step, but once I got no further than a `df'.
AFAIK the aha152x driver in early 2.2 has some SMP bugs. So you may try
if either updating to 2.2.10 or putting the IOMega on the Adaptec helps.
-Andi
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