Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:50:41 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | Subject | Re: cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) |
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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.
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