Re: Hard lock-ups on RH7.2 install - Via Chipset?

[Charlie Wilkinson <cwilkins@boinklabs.com>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:27:39PM +0000, Alan Cox waxed eloquent:
> 
> > What I found was that writing out to any two drives was fine.  Writing to
> > all four will consistently lock up the machine after about 5-10 seconds.
> > So it seems load related.  (No, I didn't try three drives.)
[...]
> Its just another identical report of VIA + high PCI load hanging. It might
> be the promise drivers it might be the chipset. However people have run the
> same set up on intel boards without seeing this kind of problem so its
> not clear.
> 
> 2.4.18pre9-ac has the newer ide layer, but Im dubious that will help

I can confirm that it still locks up.  :/  What can I do to help?
Anyone I should beat on, or send beer and pizza to?

-cw-

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