On Aug 13 2001, Rogério Brito wrote:
> 	Dear People,
> 
> 	I have a friend with a computer running a vanilla Linux 2.2.19
> 	that is a bit unstable nowadays.
(...)

	Thank you very much for everybody that helped with the problem
	that I have. I'll be checking the hardware of the machine and
	I'll let you know what the results that I have are (i.e., if
	the problem is indeed with cooling or with other hardware
	part).

	Meanwhile, I'm having other problems when I use a kernel
	2.2.19 in a computer with an Adaptec card.

	I get a lot of messages saying "Data overrun detected" when
	there is any slight disk activity (like the init scripts being
	loaded during boot). When the disk is almost idle, I don't see
	these messages, but if I trigger something (like a find
	process) that does something a bit more intense, then I get a
	huge number of these messages. I'm sending a dmesg attached to
	this e-mail.

	I don't see any such messages with kernel 2.2.18. Are these
	messages "dangerous" in any way? May it be the case that these
	events are also occuring when 2.2.18 is running but it is not
	reporting, while 2.2.19 is? Is there any potential bug with
	the hardware?

	The machine in question is a Samba server with low load
	generally.

	BTW, reading Alan Cox release notes
	(http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2219.html), I see
	that between kernels 2.2.18 and 2.2.19, the AIC7xxx driver was
	updated. May that be a cause of the problem?

	Is there any other information that is necessary? I see no
	Oops this time, BTW.


	Thank you very much for any help, Roger...

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