From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932350AbWGRSlg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:41:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932351AbWGRSlf (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:41:35 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:10478 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932350AbWGRSlf (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:41:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:40:52 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: febo@delenda.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 'vintage' via dma bug Message-ID: <20060718184052.GA9679@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , febo@delenda.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <001001c6aa99$0476a380$fc01a8c0@EFFEPUNTO> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001001c6aa99$0476a380$fc01a8c0@EFFEPUNTO> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:36:00PM +0200, febo@delenda.net wrote: > I have the misfortune to run a rather old PIII machine with a VIA chipset, > a Fedora Core 1 distro with 2.4.22 kernel and two PATA hard mirrored hard > disk, on two separate channels, both set to primary. I've experienced some > data corruption lately and after much googling I've found that 4-5 years > ago some via chipset experienced a similar problem with dma transfers, > especially with hard disk configured the very same way as my setup. The bug > was fixed, I gather, in 2.4.4. I've upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10 (the > latest Fedora legacy core *TWO* kernel, with fingers crossed) but the > corruption problems usually start to pop up only after a few weeks of > uptime, especially under relatively heavy load. > I couldn't find more precise pointers after all these years so I'd like to > know if that bug really affected my chipset, and if 2.6.10 is a valid > solution.. I'm puzzled why you upgraded from one end-of-life'd distro to another ancient end-of-life'd distro. You're more likely to get interest from the upstream developers if you're running something recent. Even _I_ don't remember what was good/bad in the Fedora kernels from that era, and I built them :-) Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk