Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:58:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:58:38 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:64241 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:57:29 -0400 Subject: Re: Tyan s2466 stability From: Alan Cox To: Kurt Garloff Cc: Linux kernel list In-Reply-To: <20020716205113.GC23954@nbkurt.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> References: <1026834468.2119.61.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20020716205113.GC23954@nbkurt.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 16 Jul 2002 23:10:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1026857446.1688.76.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 21:51, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > I've seen it with IDE burners too. I don't know what the cause is > > Strange SMI stuff, maybe? > Bugs with PCI arbitration that are recovered from but take time? > > You've probably already looked into those, though. I've read the errata but thats not given me any clues. The box is fast, including PCI bandwidth measurements but neither PCI card or SCSI streaming to tape or CD-R works well. The motherboard IDE works a treat and the 64bit slots give me excellent performance (but thats a raid card so I can't yet use it for tape) - 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/