Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 21 Jan 2001 12:40:30 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Via apollo KX133 ide bug in 2.4.x |
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On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:32:36PM -0500, safemode wrote: > Peter Horton wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:38:12AM +0000, Peter Horton wrote: > > > > > > I think I'm suffering the same thing on my new Asus A7V. Yesterday I got a > > > single "error in bitmap, remounting read only" type error, and today I got > > > some files in /tmp that returned I/O error when stat()ed. I do have DMA > > > enabled, but only UDMA33. I've done several kernel compiles with no > > > problems at all so looks like something is on the edge. Think I might go > > > back to 2.2.x for a bit and see what happens, or maybe just remove the VIA > > > driver :-((. > > > > > > > I apologise for following up my own E-mail, but there is something I'm > > missing here (maybe a whole lot of something). Anyone know how come we're > > seeing silent corruption ... I thought this UDMA stuff was all checksummed > > ? If there error is outside the data I assume the driver would notice ? > > > > P. > > The thing is, even with UDMA disabled in the kernel, I still see the corruption > with 2.4.x (release) and above. Anything written while using the kernel is > corrupted. Much of the stuff will read fine (files) ... but I believe > directories get the IO error immediately and some files do also. Everything is > seen as corrupted when you fsck a partition where this kernel has been run and > created files on. This is a silent corruption without any errors reported and > I've only tested it on ext2. You cannot create FS's with these kernels (at > least on the VIA chipsets) since they too are corrupted (note, only tested ext2 > fs). I did disable UDMA everywhere and still saw it happen, this problem is > not present in older 2.4.0-test kernels so it's something in the late > pre-release stage and into the release stage.
Do you have the via driver compiled in? If yes, try without, if no, try with it ...
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