I have an alpha-PC164 running RH6.2 and experience network crash as
well. I have a SCSI host adapter (Adaptec 2940UW); no IDE.
>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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