From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maney@two14.net (Martin Maney) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.22-rc2 ext2 filesystem corruption Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:12:22 -0600 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040104011222.GA1433@furrr.two14.net> References: <200310311941.31930.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Reply-To: maney@pobox.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from dsl017-022-215.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([69.17.22.215]:20746 "EHLO gateway.two14.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264286AbUADBMe (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:12:34 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310311941.31930.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Martin Maney , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:52:21PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > [ http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.1/1164.html > for people seeing this subject for the first time ] Sorry the reply is so belated, but by the time this patch came along I was feeling like I had been more than a little foolish to test this on a live (and very necessary) system as I had been doing. I've finally gotten hardware rearranged so that I can feel safe about this. > Can you try booting with "hdX=autotune" (hdX==your drive) kernel parameter? > The next thing to try is the attached patch (against 2.4.23-pre9), which > sanitizes 66MHz clock usage -> now 66MHz clock is "enabled" before starting Okay, by now I have 2.4.23 installed, and with that version (and booting from a drive not connected to the Promise controller, a mirror pair on a 3ware controller, in fact) I no longer seem to be able to recreate the corruption that was previously so repeatable. The autotune parameter makes no difference: it just works. If this issue is still of interest (ie, it's just by luck that .23 works), I can do further testing for a while, but the drive that's on the Promise will be getting repurposed sooner or later. -- Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. -- JKG