On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, David Forbes wrote:
> > There's [port-arm32/10502] CATS crash under heavy IDE usage.
> >
> > This is a show stopper to me. I've not yet tried 1.5 on the CATS, but I
> > don't see why it should have improved (seeing it's a problem present since
> > the first 1.3F kernels and throughout 1.4). I've got customers with CATS
> > machines that lock 5 times daily. Sadly, I'm being forced to look at
> > ripping out the boards and putting in i386 stuff.
> 
> What's the definition of heavy IDE usage?  I have 1.5 on mine and I don't
> recall having seen this for a long time.  If there a particular process
> that reproduces it?

A dd copying to /dev/null simultaneously on two drives. A tar on one
drive, being piped to a tar on another. Either of these are sufficient.
The last kernel tried was 1.4ZD.

I do intend to test with 1.5 in the very near future.

-- 
Stephen