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SubjectRe: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??
Hello

Grant Coady wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Situation is dataloss with no errors logged.
>
> Test: unpack 2.6.12 tarball from NFS mount source, diff against
> previous attempt:
>
> $ diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old linux-2.6.12
> Binary files linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h and linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h differ
> diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/apc.h linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/apc.h
> --- linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/apc.h 2005-06-18 05:48:29.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/apc.h 2005-06-18 05:48:29.000000000 +1000
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
> #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30
>
> #define APC_REGMASK 0x01
> -define APC_BPMASK 0x03
> +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03
>
> /*
> * IDLE - CPU standby values (set to initiate standby)
> diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/svr4.h linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/svr4.h
> --- linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/svr4.h 2005-06-18 05:48:29.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/svr4.h 2005-06-18 05:48:29.000000000 +1000
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ typedef struct { /* signa
>
> /* Values for siginfo.code */
> #define SVR4_SINOINFO 32767
> -/* Siginfo, sucker expects bunch of information on those paramEters */
> +/* Siginfo, sucker expects bunch of information on those parameters */
> typedef union {
> char total_size [128];
> struct {
>
>
> Seems like three bit errors for source tree. Other times I've noted
> compile failures where unpacking source tree fresh would 'fix' error.
> I'd previously assumed that I accidentally killed source tree with
> 'cp -al ...' copies but I've had a segfault on that operation, hence
> I do not know if this be NIC or filesystem (reiserfs on via SATA).
>
>
> Today disabled onboard via-rhine and used Intel pro/100 + e100 driver,
> several source trees unpacked identically, running 2.6.12.4 or 2.4.31-hf3
>
> The fault occurs on 2.4 latest or 2.6 latest only on particular target
> box, so problem is not the NFS server.
>
> How to test and isolate this error is in NIC driver, SATA driver or
> filesystem?
>

Could it be that tarbal on NFS server changed?
It is not very likely that error in kernel drivers fixed typos in source code.

> Thanks,
> Grant.
>
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