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 16:00:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:00:16 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:50956 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:00:15 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: 2.5.49: Severe PIIX4/ATA filesystem corruption Date: 26 Nov 2002 13:07:21 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2002 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org So, I finally braved it and tried running 2.5.49 on my workstation to test out my RAID-6 patches. There were no patches outside the md area, and the ordinary filesystems aren't on md drives. The two SCSI drives (SymBIOS controller) work just fine, but I have gotten repeated, severe data corruption on the one ATA drive in the system after only a few hours of operation. Just thought I'd warn people... -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt