Andy Green wrote:
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
I had a laptop I upgraded that showed similar intractable symptoms...
it was able to boot after I physically removed the DVD drive from the
laptop. Since the same setup worked fine with older kernels I guess it
will be able to go back in there one day when a later kernel can cope
with the motherboard controller chipset or the DVD device or whatever it
is it didn't like.
-Andy
Interesting you should mention the DVD drive. I had returned a CD/DVD
drive to LiteOn under warranty about a month ago and it came back the
other day, looked used but had a different serial number. I figured
they were playing "musical chairs" with the equipment but installed it
in what had been an F7 computer I thought was working well and
immediately began to see seg faults!
I put the old drive back, same problem! That would seem to vindicate
the replacement drive would it not, or had it done damage to something
else? I absolutely dread another telephone session with LiteOn tech
support, it took five calls to get them to agree to accept the drive for
"repair" initially. Only way I could do that was to put another old
hard drive in the computer and install Windows 2000 on it, better to
take the forty dollar loss I think.
Bob Goodwin
