Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:42:50 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: new Areca driver in 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 appears to be broken |
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On Thu, Apr 20 2006, erich wrote: > Dear Jens Axboe, > > I do "fsck -fy /dev/sda1" on driver MAX_XFER_SECTORS 512. > The file system was not clean. > I attach mesg.txt for you refer to. > > ===================================== > == boot with driver MAX_XFER_SECTORS 4096 > ===================================== > #mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1 > #reboot > ===================================== > == boot with driver MAX_XFER_SECTORS 512 > ===================================== > #fsck -fy /dev/sda1 > /dev/sda1:clean,............. > #reboot > ===================================== > == boot with driver MAX_XFER_SECTORS 4096 > ===================================== > #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 > #cp /root/aa /mnt/sda1 > #reboot > ===================================== > == boot with driver MAX_XFER_SECTORS 512 > ===================================== > #fsck -fy /dev/sda1 > /dev/sda1: no clean,........and dump message such as the attach file > mesg.txt.
So the conclusion is that your driver and/or hardware corrupts data when you set MAX_XFER_SECTORS too high. I can't help you anymore with this, you should be in the best position to debug the driver and/or hardware :-)
It could be that the higher setting just exposes another transfer setting bug, like maximum number of segments or segment size, etc.
-- Jens Axboe
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