Re: Corruption bug in CPU, kernel or tar

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:26:12 -0400

According to Dan Hollis:
> Apparently some (most?) cdroms do some strange sort of stop-n-go jerking
> of the ide bus when run in DMA mode, which can confuse the VP3/MVP3 IDE
> controller leading to hard system lockups.

Boy, is *that* the truth. Every time I try to enable DMA on the CD,
hard lockup. This is with an NEC 4-CD changer *and* a Memorex CD-RW.
(Epox motherboard.)

-- 
Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/