From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:29:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:29:30 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:39947 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:29:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3DE4138E.8060600@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:36:30 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5.49: Severe PIIX4/ATA filesystem corruption References: <1038357146.2658.105.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3DE40E29.4040408@zytor.com> <1038359021.3267.110.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > The base 2.5.47/8/9 Linus tree PIIX code has had no corruption reports > (except someone whose box failed memtest86) and its about the most > tested IDE controller. > > I would be interested to know what happens if you boot a base 2.5.49 > without raid6 adulteration and stress it on your hw there, just to be > sure. > I will try it once the system gets put back together, which will be in about two weeks (we're moving, and today was computer teardown day.) All I have ATM is my laptop, which I won't be running experimental stuff on :-/ -hpa