[... talking about AHA2940 WITHOUT problems]
> the ppp on your new kernel. when i am running ppp-2.2.0e the motor of
> my corner (1060S) harddisk will becoming very noisy. it doesnt happen to
> my another pentium system with ide harddisk.
[...]
The Conner isn't a silent drive. Can it be that using ppp simply
writes some logfiles to the disk? Usually the motor should always be
on. The movements of the heads make the noise. Or do you get
corrupted files?
------------
Ulrich Windl Klinikum der Universitaet Regensburg
Rechenzentrum DV-med Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11
Tel: +49 941 944-5879 D-93053 Regensburg
FAX: +49 941 944-5882
Just imagine my mail address were <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni.r.de>...