On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:01:58PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I did find it very sensitive to BIOS version, PCI cards and also RAM quality. > > And finally except for very recent Tyan BIOSes you need a PS/2 mouse connected > > to avoid IDE lockups > > You must be kidding ? This may as well have caused a lot of frustration... > I removed everything from the system, and still ocassionally had it lock > up for no apparent reason. > > Do you have more information about this bug and is there some way I could > have found out it was ps/2 mouse myself ? Theres an errata on early versions of some AMD chipsets. This should be handled correctly by the current kernels without the need for the PS/2 mouse workaround. Dave