> I'm fairly sure it's a deadlock bettwen the two drivers but I can't see
> it.. The sb drivers are a mess of cli's..
Yep, I'm very certain that this is the case - I have noticed that the
system will always lock up if it does a hard disk access at the same time
as it plays a sound. It sounds like the (excuse the pun) sound driver and
the IDE driver are fighting with each other to service the interrupts.
> Why doesn't Linus have this problem? Does he not have a sound blaster 16+
> or does this only affect certian buslogic cards or only 586 smp systems?
He doesn't really use Intel architectures these days.
PS. My system is not a SMP system, nor do I use SCSI.
I did think Alan Cox had fixed this problem - at least in an old kernel
release and I haven't tested this part of the system for a long time until
yesterday.
Cheers,
Alex
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