I have two systems:
1. DX/33, 8M, 200M IDE, 100M IDE, Trident ISA VGA, NE-2000 clone
2. DX/2-66, 32M, 1022M Caviar 31200 on ISA IDE, Cirrus 5428 VGA, NE-2000 clone
Both machines have:
Slackware 3.0 w/Linux 1.3.66, gcc272-no-sr-bug.lbin.tgz from tsx-11
Machine 1. just plain works, NFS install worked fine. I've been building
kernels on this machine for testing on Machine 2.
Machine 2. all kinds of trouble: (same with 1.2.13, 1.3.66extide, 1.3.66oldide)
Get weird "program cc1 got fatal signal 11" trying to re-compile 1.3.66
Crashed twice during an NFS re-install
Tried with New extended IDE driver as IDE driver and old IDE driver.
The kernel is absolute minmum driver config with TCP/IP
When I do "ps -ax" it works, but "ps -aux" produces "Floating point exception"
Many times "signal 11" produces a "panic" sort of output on the console, but
the machine is still running.
Swapped CPUs with an identicle machine
The processors are genuine Intel DX-2/66 (fairly old)
The driver message from the old IDE driver is:
hda: WDC AC31200F, 1222MB w/64KB Cache, CHS=2484/16/63, MaxMult=16
Now for the weird part. When I move the Caviar drive to machine 1, I get the
same problems.
I'm leaning towards some problem with the WDC Caviar drive. I never get
ANY drive related error messages on the console or /var/adm/messages.
This drive works fine under Windows 95.
I want to ask the boss to get a Maxtor 1.6G (71626A/AP) to replace the
WDC Caviar (we just got one for another machine), but not if I'm just
going to run into the same problems all over again.
Please e-mail.
Thanks,
John
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John Bly Milton IV MegaLinx SysAdmin w:614.798.9104, h:614.457.NeXT