tcjam wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Try zapping PRAM.  That fixes hangs there for some people.  Not sure why.
> > 
> > Hmmm...this too, although I hear that continually doing this is _really_
> > bad for the system (I know of at least one system which now has a bad
> > motherboard b/c the user zapped PRAM pretty much every time he booted).
> > 
> NO WAY! How does wiping out memory kill a motherboard? 

Oops, my bad, it wasn't the motherboard, but the Daystar PowerPro
accelerator attached to it.  Now I remember ;-)  Basically, the constant
resetting of the PRAM was toggling the accelerator on and off in a way it
wasn't designed to handle, so it eventually burned out.  Sorry for the
confusion

> And about keeping stuff handy for when the fs gets trashed I think I
> reinstalled from scratch about 40 times before I found a kernel that works
> and yes I started making my own distribution just for the purpose :0

Yeah....I suppose that SCSI driver really needs to be fixed :-(

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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