Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:34:53 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Drvie Corruption CONSTANTLY with Linux and KT7-RAID |
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:20:24AM -0800, Peter DeVries wrote: > Please help.. I'm at the end of my rope with this now. > I have rebuilt this system and corupted my drive at > least 30 times now. I have a ABIT KT7-RAID and no > matter what I do with any kernel 2.2.16 - 2.4.2-ac19 > as soon as I turn on DMA mode the drive starts to > corrupt and becomes useless. The corruption happens > alot faster in 2.4xxx than the 2.2.xxx kernels.
Do you notice any programs getting SEGVs? If they do, it could be bad RAM.
Personally, when I come across a machine which behaves oddly, the first thing I'd try is checking the memory. You can get a copy of memtest86 for doing this.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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