[tulip-bug] LNE-100tx and IDE trouble

[Donald Becker]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Pete Holzmann wrote:

> I've got a PIII system ("rose") with two LinkSys LNE-100tx ethernet 
> cards, Mandrake Linux 2.2.14, and an IDE hard drive.
> Index #1: Found a ADMtek AL985 Centaur-P adapter at 0xd000.

..
> * if I redirect the output of ttcp on the linux side, suddenly
>   everything falls apart, including kernel error messages,
>   incompletely written to the log file. 
...
> Jan 27 07:03:59 rose kernel: ing interrupt, csr5=0xfc664010. 
> Jan 27 07:04:00 rose kernel: fc664010. 

You have debugging turned on to the highest level.  This will put a
large load on the machine as the messages are logged to the disk.

Try turning debugging off.



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