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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Peter DeVries <peter@devries.tv>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Drvie Corruption CONSTANTLY with Linux and KT7-RAID
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:34:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010315223453.B7500@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200103151420.JAA03185@gloworm.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103151420.JAA03185@gloworm.cnchost.com>; from peter@devries.tv on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:20:24AM -0800

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-15 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-15 14:20 Drvie Corruption CONSTANTLY with Linux and KT7-RAID Peter DeVries
2001-03-15 15:44 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-15 22:34 ` Russell King [this message]
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103151153050.28602-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-03-21  3:21 ` Peter DeVries

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