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- From: ajake@mits.mdata.fi (Jarkko Aitti)
- Subject: linux crashes
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:54:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.055407.6948@prime.mdata.fi>
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- Hi, i'm running linux 0.98.3 at my 486dx with no problems (almost),
- BUT my friend who has 486sx have lots of problems with it.
- (i'm posting this because he has no modem to use)
-
- Machine:
- Motherboard is marketed under name 'contaq' and uses AMI bios and is
- compatible also with 486DX prosessors, it's a ISA bus, it has 486sx cpu.
- There's some chips marked UMC, so maybe it's using UMC chipset (dunno if there
- is UMC chipset, i heard these infos over phoneline)
- 4 Megs memory.
-
- Harddisk is Maxtor LXT213A atv2.05 ( i think it's atid, and i don't know its
- revision number)
-
- There's also sounblaster card and oak vga card.
-
- Software:
- SLS 0.98.1 release (copy of mine which works), now upgraded to 0.98.3 kernel.
- Using ext filesystem and one swappartition.
-
- Problem:
- Lots of different hangups at random interval, which does not depend if he is
- using it or not. (at least seems like it)
-
- errors:
-
- Trying to free nonexistant swapspace
- ---------------
- ext_find_entry: Bad dir entry
- device=770,dir=212,offset=520,reclen=770,name_len=0
- ---------------
- General protection:0000
- elp:0008:0001 695b
- eflag:00010286
- fs:0017
- base:00000000 limit:c0000000
- pid:576,prosess nr 2
- 8b,50,24,89,15,e8,ab,04,00,c7
- (these he gots at least one screenful at a time)
- -----------------
-
- Sometimes machine resets immediately after erros so it's hard to read them.
- Previously he used mcc-0.97.2 release, and had no problems..
- (those both were copies of mine, so disks should be allright)
-
- how is he tried to fix it:
- first after gotting that swap error, he reformatted swappartion.
- (with -c option, allthought there is no erros)
-
- After i heard that there's a maxtor harddisk, i remebered of reading lots about
- problems with some revisions of it. (it's in my KILL file:)
- So, i borrowed my wd controller and he had st-251 drive, which he first
- formatted (lowlevel) and then started to install SLS release to it.
-
- He got those 'general protection errors' while installing it, so it wasn't
- maxtor which did those...
-
- He is using dos and windows with no problems at all..
-
- Resetted bios setups to defaults didn't help..
-
- I saw one posting from someone who mentioned also having same kind of problems
- with motherboard which had chips reading 'UMC'.
-
- --
-
- Name: Jarkko J. Aitti Mail: ajake@mits.mdata.fi
-
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