thanks for the responses so far, but i still need help..
the machines's just hung again :-(

did you receive the output of 'dmesg' ok?

Tony

On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:35:45 +0000 
>  Nick Loman <nick@csosl.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>  > Is your Adaptec adapter on an ISA bus? If so, it will have problems if you
>  > have more than 16mb of memory. Something to do with DMA :)
> 
> ...if this were the problem, there would have most definitely been
> messages on the console.
> 
> That said, let's try and find the real problem.
> 
> Tony, can you post the output of "dmesg"?
> 
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