Re: Network crash problem on PC164

[Bart Warmerdam <bartw xs4all nl>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:05:58PM +0100, Linus Gasser wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> For quite a while now I have problems with my alpha-PC164 running RH6.2. From 

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  I have more or less the same problem with my SX. Whenever I use something on
  my IDE bus the machine acts weird. Serial comm drops so my modem stops
  working, sometime the timer stops and always my mouse and keyboard died. The
  mouse/kb stop working all the time but background processes keep running
  (like writing a CD scsi->scsi). The way I fixed is: buy scsi. Not the
  cheapest way, but I am happy with the change made (IDE->SCSI). To me it
  looks like a irq/busmaster/dma kind of thing.But I am nowhere near an
  expert. Turning off DMA still gives me the same problems. So I hope someone
  else can give a more meaningful reply.

  Cheers,

  B.