[ale] Another Newbie Question

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Actually, I had just the opposite problem once.  IDE mode 4 worked for
linux, flaked out under Windows. (Maxtor 5.1 EIDE drive)  Backed it down
to mode 3 and all was well.

-Eric.

Curtis Smith writes:
 > > > I have Redhat 4.1 installed on my machine.  Every so often (at the
 > > worst
 > > > time possible),
 > > > I get the message "PANIC: Segmentation Violation. Giving Up!" and my
 > > > machine hangs,
 > > > and dadgummit, I have to reformat and reinstall.  Any idea what is
 > > > wrong? The recover disks are of little help, and I am at my wits
 > > end.
 > > > 
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > General advise:
 > > 
 > > Upgrade? Perhaps the 4.1 has a problem which was solved in 4.2
 > > 
 > > Enough swap space? Maybe you are running out of memory (virtual +
 > > real)
 > > 
 > I'm running 4.1 upgraded to 4.2 on all SCSI disks and 80Mhz 486, 32 Mb
 > RAM.
 > 
 > I beat the sense out of this box.  The running process list is several
 > screen fulls,
 > I've had >>100Mb swapped, tape backup, java, Netscape, Applixware all
 > churning
 > away....   Never crashed, even once.
 > 
 > In my view your problem is related to: an IDE disk that can't take heavy
 > load reliably.
 > In the cheap EIDE disk world,  more disks have flaky problems than
 > Western/Maxtor 
 > will admit.  But they work great under Win95...
 > 
 > Or RAM subsystem flaking and corrupting the Kernel / Supper block space.
 > 
 > Try slowing down your PIO mode.  I.E. Go from mode 4 to 3, or 3 to 2.
 > 
 > Since EIDE disk I/O clock rate is governed by the system clock, you may
 > try de-clocking
 > your system clock.  Especially if you have "over-clocked" your mother
 > board.
 > 
 > Try adding more DRAM wait states.  Just add one at a time.  
 > 
 > Beat your system up with compiles, lots of write and read IO.
 > 
 > Good luck.
 > 
 > curt