Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Western Digital hard drive and DMA | Date | Sun, 08 Sep 2002 22:19:43 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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jbradford@dial.pipex.com said: > > OK, I have heard that other people have been having this problem for a while > > now, but I havent been able to find much about what causes it. I have a > > Western Digital hard drive in my computer (60GB, 5400 RPM) I can use it just > > fine with no DMA, but it runs much faster with DMA. However, when I use DMA, > > all my data is slowly corrupted, and I begin having to re-install packages > > all the time. After about a month, my system deteriorates to the point where > > I have to reinstall slackware. I have no idea why this is happening, but I > > know some people who have had the same experience under Linux with Western > > Digital hard drives, but not with other brands. I am assuming this is a > > problem with Western Digital's implimentation of DMA, but shouldnt it do > > something to prevent errors? > > What is the chipset of the interface it's on?
Use DMA for a week or so, and / is mangled beyond recognition (seems to happen with read-only access too). Chipset is intel (sr440bx board, PIIX4E IDE). Have heard of similar problems with DMA on WD drives, but got no details. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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