Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:42:03 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: dannyman <dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org> Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A reminder of toxic -current ** READ THIS ** Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980319083734.11924E-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <19980318214758.38114@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dannyman wrote:
> First off, thanks to Karl, John and Steve for dire warnings, advice,
> education, tackling the problem, etc. :)
Yes. Big thanks, guys!
> > 2) You are not tripping the condition that is causing the destruction.
> > This *IS* possible; I have two machines in particular uses which do
> > NOT cause the problem, but I don't know why.
>
> Are there any commonalities in chipsets, and the like? Particular drivers?
> My system seems to be working perfectly normally, though to be honest, its
> normal operation is not perfect. ;) A shuttle motherboard, Intel chips, WDC
> drives .... K5. *shrug*
Hmm. That's interesting coincidence. I'm running the kernel from Mar 16,
the hardware is very similar (shuttle MB with Intel chips, IDE drives and
K5 CPU), and I also don't see any problems. I don't like to play with fire
- I just did cvsup and rebuild before I've read the warnings. Now, I'm
backing off at full speed.. :-)
Andrzej Bialecki
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