Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:52:26 +0000 | From | A E Lawrence <> | Subject | Re: EXT2-fs error |
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A E Lawrence wrote: > > A E Lawrence wrote: > > > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > > I have seen similar problems on stock 2.4.2 a machine which has not run > > > > 2.4.1. > > > > > > What disk controllers ? We really need that sort of info in order to see the > > > pattern in the odd reports of corruption we get > > Problems have just started to show up under 2.2.18, so it is likely that > the hardware has become flakey. Bit of a coincidence, unless it is a > side effect of upgrading one of the packages for 2.4.2 :-( or a damaged > library. > > So you had better discount this report. Apologies.
Now investigated: the hardware has not changed. Rather the corruption under 2.2.18 only happens when hdparm -d1 is executed. I guess that is well reported, but I had forgotten if I ever knew :-(
In contrast 2.4.2 corruptions happen whether dma is explicitly turned on by hdparm or not.
[IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10)]
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