Re: 6500 PM G3L2 and IDE Hard Drive Interrupt Loss


Subject: Re: 6500 PM G3L2 and IDE Hard Drive Interrupt Loss
From: Nathan T Hjelm (hjelm@t6-serv.lanl.gov)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 09:59:29 MDT


I have a simular problem except on a 6400/200 with a 233 MHz cash card
except i fixed it by removing my ide drive and using a scsi one. i
still get some weird false io messages when it scans the scsi drives.

Nathan Hjelm
MS B288 T-6: Theoretical Astrophysics
Blg: 1553 Rm 105
Phone: 7-5444

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stiles, Robert W wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently using a 6500 PowerMac with a NewerTech G3L2 300/200
> Upgrade card. When the card is activated using kernel version 2.2.15 there
> is a loss of the Hda interrupt and will continue to display in sequence
> hda1, hda2, hda3, etc with no activity apparent with the Hard Drive. Using
> kernel version 2.2.6-15a doesnt have this problem. I would like to use
> kernel version 2.2.15 if possible. Is this a known problem and is there a
> fix??? Also note with the G3 card disabled the problem is not present, but
> since the upgrade card is installed in the cache slot running it disabled
> results in a very slow machine.
>
> Robert
>



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