On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:11:59PM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> hmm, does the machine negotiate some buff ide mode, or something?
> 
> you might tweak your kernel (or have somebody build you a kernel)
> which detunes the IDE modes.

Hm. Did anything of this change between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2?

> I seem to recall that there were some issues with ISA DMA, that would
> cause the cs89x0 to lose a word from time to time.  I don't recall
> what exactly they were, though, nor did i ever know the cause or
> whether it was specific to the cx89x0.

[While this would explain the hangs on my diskless boxen at work, it doesn't
explain why some of them run rock solid... besides, I think I tried DMAless
Ethernet back then, and it didn't work either.]

To exclude Ethernet lossage, I made sure to test with a local pkgsrc.tar.
1.4.1 runs fine, 1.4.2 has same problem. Unfortunately, when the freeze
happens, CTRL-ALT-ESC doesn't work.

Regards,
	-is