-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rich Johnson wrote: > On Jul 9, 2006, at 4:38 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> Better support for h/w. (For example, you may want to install >> a SATA card in your machine. I don't know how well 2.4 >> supports SATA.) >> >> The 2.6 kernel is where all new features like "more efficient >> ext3" are released. >> >> Even if 2.4 does everything you need/want, still, upgrade to >> 2.4.32 and go to .33 when it is released soon. >> > > Yeah, I know all that. > > No amount of fiddling with hdparm helped when running 2.4 so I > think the problem lies elsewhere. On 2.4 Memtest runs a complete > cycle in ~2400 secs. No errors other than the initial probes > are reported. > > Anyway, the problem goes away with a 2.6 kernel. This is with no > changes to BIOS or any of the package configurations. This > gives _me_ an acceptable solution....for now.
What do you mean "for now"? > ... there are those nagging doubts. Surely I'm not the only one > who's seen such behavior. From a community perspective it's > troubling to see a basic, no-frills, stable installation on a > name-brand machine produce such horrible results. Maybe NCR changed at some point, but I do know that they were always hot for *highly* customized systems. "Added value", it's called. The fact that the 2.6 kernel fixes it strongly suggests to me that the PG350 *is* such an oddball, where a work-around was only put into 2.6. > It's shaken > my confidence that the problem will not reappear at the most > inopportune time. Oh, puh-leeze. Mobo, chipset and card makers all do some pretty weird shit, and it's not easy for Linux to handle every combination of custom chipsets. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEsot5S9HxQb37XmcRAsUIAKDCBgbwYmBvjEcfDqhZn7pvWGN3RQCfUZ/w fP9vYh9ELtmfxuTN77JQZYE= =MK0W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
