Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:09:46 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Riccardo Facchetti <> | Subject | Re: FS Corruption in 2.1.109 |
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Christopher Seawood wrote:
> > I don't think this is a filesystem problem, or I'd have been getting a lot > > more reports about it (and judging by how easily it happens to you I > > should have seen it myself). But there have been occasional grumblings > > about IDE DMA.. > > I disabled IDE-DMA in the kernel and everything seems to be working fine > now. Multiple rm/untar tests yielded no errors. I've compiled mozilla & > wine a few times and installed rh5.1 on the spare drive (while still > running 2.1.109). Nothing. Incidentally, a guy in our local LUG has > experienced the same problem with his Tyan TomcatIII mb under 2.1.108. He > said he disabled ide-dma (but didn't say where...kernel or drive) and his > problems went away.
More than an year ago I have experienced a problem with my IDE drives. My setup was hda,hdb,hdc IDE HDs and hdd CDROM. With "maximum performance" settings I have started to experience data corruption on the filesystems (not really hard corruption, to be honest: one byte every some 100 megs of files copied .. the test was copying files all over the disks): even PIO mode 1 didn't work well. Setting by BIOS the PIO mode 0 for ALL the IDE devices cured the corruption problem.
I have asked to Mark about this problem and he told me to check my IDE cables because it seemed to him that they where too much long. I have replaced the cables with shorter ones and the problem went away.
Ciao, Riccardo.
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