Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 4 May 1996 21:20:36 -0700 | From | "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <> | Subject | Re: ext2 problems on fast-wide SCSI-2 |
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Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 11:10:59 -0400 From: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>
I've also had lockups and panics and such, but, as I said, I was running kernels that were more-or-less known to have problems with fast SCSI subsystems (or so I had gathered from these mailing lists), so I figured I'd not clutter things up and just wait for the probems, which seemed fairly well understood, to be resolved.
Data corruption is relatively infrequent and usually indicates a problem with the underlying hardware, rather than the operating system. This is especially true if Linux 1.2.13 will run reliably on your system. The usual causes of data corruption are memory or external cache problems, either due to timing parameters that are set too aggressive, or just plain faulty memory/cache, or due to PCI optimizations being turned on that do not work properly in the particular chipset revision you have.
Leonard
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