Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) | From | Ed Sweetman <> | Date | 18 Aug 2002 14:04:42 -0400 |
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the dmesg i included shows my chipsets VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 13:50, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > At 3:26 AM -0400 8/18/02, Ed Sweetman wrote: > >It appears then that there are some DMA issues with the promise > >controller i have with the driver. My swap used to be on the drive > >on the promise controller before which would explain fs corruption > >on both drives (swap cached and such). > > FWIW, this is a semi-well-known phenomenon with the IDE controller in > the ServerWorks OSB4 south bridge. As I recall from our testing, a > word appears to be dropped in the DMA transfer to the disk. We found > that both PIO and multi-word DMA worked OK. > > What's your chipset? > -- > /Jonathan Lundell. >
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