From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:57:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from port48.ds1-vbr.adsl.cybercity.dk ([212.242.58.113]:18239 "EHLO ubik.localnet") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:57:19 +0200 Received: from murphy.dk (brm@brian.localnet [10.0.0.2]) by ubik.localnet (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id g8IGvD6m010593; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:57:13 +0200 Message-ID: <3D88B068.6080303@murphy.dk> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:57:12 +0200 From: Brian Murphy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux-MIPS CC: Matthew Dharm Subject: Re: fs problem between 2.4.19-rc1 and tip? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 237 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: brian@murphy.dk Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Matthew Dharm wrote: >Is anyone else seeing a problem using SCSI disks (ext2 format) that >was introduced between 2.4.19-rc1 and the tip revision? > >Upon booting the 2.4.20-pre6 (tip of CVS), the root filesystem throws >an error about an "unaligned directory entry" and then cannot find >init. > > This sounds like a problem I had with cache flushing in pci.h which got triggered by a change in the ide dma driver. Is it a pci driver? If so you could try the fix I submitted a few days ago with ide-dma in the subject line. /Brian