> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 07:41:43PM +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
>
> > How does one determine if this is due to hardware problems or due to
> > software problems? I copied and burned a CD last night, all went well,
> > left machine running over night. At 8:30am this morning, logged on,
> > machine locked up during making a ppp call, rebooted, fscked with no
> > filesystem problems, and found these in the logs.
>
> select_dcache and find_buffer are (were) the two most common functions
> I've seen that will produce an Oops with bad memory. select_dcache has
> been removed in newer kernels, but either way, I'd be willing to bet that
> the Oops you got is probably from (more?) RAM problems...
I've been running the memtest program continuously all day today. No
problems. It has to be a problem somewhere else, probably a nasty one
hiding in the ide-scsi eumlation layer since the last thing I did was to
copy a CD and burn a CD the night before.
I recall that a IDe SMP race was fixed in the 2.2.14pre patches.
Cheers,
Alex
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