Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

2009/7/9 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I just want to warn everybody about the 2.6.30 kernel
> (gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2)
>
> First, it seems to run fine on modern hardware with SATA drives
> (AMD64 in my case)
>
> BUT, on two old machines with SMP and IDE drivers (different
> controllers) the kernel randomly hangs and what is worse,
> it has destroyed a filesystem in such a way that even fsck
> (from a rescue cd with an 2.6.29 kernel) hangs.
> I had to make a pristine filesystem on that partition.
>
> There are some reports on the kernel mailing list and the
> kernel bug tracker which talk about similar problems
> on some hardware.
>
> If some has more news (e.g. on how to fix that)
> I'd be very interested.
> Thanks,
> Helmut.


Thanks for the warning Helmut.  I am still trying to get the 2.6.29 to
work on my old laptop and was hoping that the 2.6.30 would offer a
fix, but from what you are saying it may be a retrograde step in old
hardware like mine.

-- 
Regards,
Mick