Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:47:58 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.5.28 |
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 09:40:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I'm talking about people who don't even bother to do > > bug-reports, but only trash-talk the maintenance. > > On that note, let me mention the machines I personally am using IDE, and > apparently do not see problems: a dual PII with "Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 > IDE", and a P4 with "SiS 5513 IDE (rev 208)". > > Both setups in DMA mode, both setups have one disk per channel (first > channel is disk, second channel is CD-ROM). > > So what are the patterns for "working" vs "broken"?
In the probably-not-useful department because I haven't tested on 2.5, my experience over a quite some time has been that you find a lot more problems when you are actively beating on both channels. There is some chipset, I suspect you know which but Andre certainly does, that is just basically busted when you use both channels. I've had so many problems with this that for any data I care about I plug in a 3ware controller and use that instead.
I have a diskscrubber program which runs the bits through a series of changes, it's pretty trivial to write but I can post mine if you like, it works for banging on the disk. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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