Many hang-up's while accesing disk in a PII400

Antonio Tavares da Costa Jr (antc@stout.ufla.br)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:14:04 -0300 (EST)

Hi,
I have been trying to install linux on a PII400MHz, 256M RAM,
512K cache, 2 4.3GB ide HD, 1 ide ZIP, 1 1.44 floppy, US Robotics
fax/modem, Trident TGUI9685 Providia with 4Mb RAM, NE2000 clone
(Realtek).
After disabling UDMA for both ide0 and ide1 I've succeeded booting
from floppy (with it enabled a crc error occurred while uncompressing
kernel) and installing a Slackware 3.2 with kernel 2.0.29;
Every time I tried to access /dev/fd0 in any way (mount, fdformat...)
I got a hang-up; very intensive hd operations (tar 100MB
directories) sometimes caused hang-up,
sometimes a oops, and a few times: kernel panic, free list empty.
Gzipping a big file and subsequently trying to gunzipping caused
crc error; insisting with gunzip caused a oops.
I tried:
i) Installing 2.0.32 kernel: same things occurred;
ii) recompiling 2.0.32 trying to match my hardware during configuration:
nothing better;
iii) installed 2.1.99 kernel with hardware specific options:
the same things still occur.
iv) changed memory pents, floppy drive, video card slot: same thing;
v) disconnected Zip, fax/modem: nothing changes;
Lots of other things work well: X, fortran, maple, compiling the
kernel...

If anyone have any idea, please mail me directly, since I'm not
in the list. I can send more information if anyone want it.

Thanks,

Antonio

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