Thanx for your response. But, as I wrote, I DO have a SCSI, and the problem
persists as well as for SCSI as for IDE...
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 13:23, you wrote:
> 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
>
> [snip description]
>
> 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.
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