Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:09:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:08:50 -0500 Received: from f05s15.cac.psu.edu ([128.118.141.58]:34711 "EHLO f05n15.cac.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:08:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3BDD7164.8080401@stones.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:10:28 -0500 From: Justin Mierta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox , hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca, lung@theuw.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ECS k7s5a motherboard doesnt work In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org well, i dont have a floppy drive, so that test is a little difficult to do, but i threw some ram in there that i have used in linux before, and i still had the slew of ide error messages. and this harddrive has worked in linux before. i'm getting more and more convinced its an ide controller +linux issue. plus, i just discovered this: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0109.1/0198.html which really points to ide controller and linux not fighting nicely together, altho the thread doesnt really point towards a solution. justin Alan Cox wrote: >>well, i've been using it in win98 (unfortunately) and it works >>perfectly. i havent even had it crash at all. so i doubt its a >>hardware thing... >> > >That proves absolutely nothing. Win98 stresses the system differently to >Linux. Run test tools like memtest86 on it > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/