2.1.8X boot hangs on 2940UW controller...

[A James Lewis]

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Steve Tinney wrote:

> >My point being, I don't think it's the bios on the motherboard or scsi
> >card.  Rather it's a change with the smp code, I understand it's been
> >changed to make it much faster in 2.1.85.
> 
> There may be problems with such changes, but I have had chronic problems
> with a P6DNF configured with only one PPro 200 and a 2940.  I am about
> to take the SCSI out and put in an IDE drive to see if it cures the problems.
> 
>  Steve
> 
I'm no expert, and development code does break.... BUT remember that performance
optimisation almost always means exploiting more hardware features so a more
optimised bit of code is more likley to pull up minor hardware
incompatibilities....

Unfortunately, without reference to particular hardware, workarounds are
normally rather hard...   That said, the developers for this *free* (Open
Source, if you're wearing a suit) software never cease to amase me with the
quality of the software they put out......

James (james at linuxrocks.co.uk)
Vortex Internet
Easy to use/understand == Less Versatile/Powerfull.


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