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Re: Linux 1.2.8 sudden death - SMC the cause?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Darragh)
Fri May 26 00:39:29 1995
To: dhollis@hq.jcic.org (Daniel Hollis)
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 11:25:00 +0800 (WST)
From: "Stephen Darragh" <stephen@belgarath.it.com.au>
Cc: linux-network@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sEfcS-000xAdC@hq.jcic.org> from "Daniel Hollis" at May 25, 95 09:18:44 am
> > > Been having problems with 1.2.8 hanging, it locks up hard. No response to
> > > pings, no disk activity, and no keyboard response.
> > > eth0 is WD80x3 at 0x280 IRQ 15, shared mem at 0xd0000-0xd1fff
> > Something is seriously wrong here, as you are using a "16 bit"
> > interrupt, buy you only report 8k of packet buffer space, which
> > would indicate you are using an 8 bit card (i.e. a wd8003).
> > Unless this is an el-cheapo EEPROM-less clone...
>
> This is an SMC Ultra. It's being _auto detected_ by the WD code. The SMC
> is a 16 bit card, in a 16 bit slot.
I am seeing *exactly* the same hang problems in a machine with an SMC
Ultra in it at the moment. The problem is that it doesn't seem to
matter too much what kernel is running on it, which makes me suspect
that there might be some hardware problem in the machine.
The machine (polgara.it.com.au) was up for 10 days, and then it just locked
solid. Hard reset. 10 minutes. Locked up again. Reset. 15 minutes.
Lock. Reset. 10 minutes. Lock... etc. for about five more reboots.
I then took the machine apart, checked everything, switched it back on
(with the 1.2.8 kernel with net patches) and it was up for 3 and a half
hours, at which point I decided to reboot with 1.2.8 without the patches
because NFS was hanging on the patched kernel. Reboot. 15 minutes.
Lock.
I then powered the machine off for 15 minutes, rebooted, and it has
managed to stay up overnight so far, which does make me suspect some
hardware fault. The power off reboot this time was with a non-net-
patched kernel.
It is most frustrating.
... Stephen
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