Re: Machine lockup bug report.

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:53:55 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Gary.

>>> The CDROM is a Toshiba IDE drive, as slave. It is the only ide
>>> device in the system.

>> if it's your only IDE device, it shouldn't be slave to start with.
>> it should be a master.

> I thought it only mattered if you had 2 devices on that bus. Is
> it not irrelevant with just one device?

Depends on the rest of your hardware - I have at least one motherboard
that disables an IDE bus with no master device...

Best wishes from Riley.

PS: The kernel versions page is now back online at the URL below, and
includes separate sublists both for each kernel series, and for
each year of development.

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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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* http://www.memalpha.cx/Linux/Kernel/

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