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* Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
@ 2001-07-07  5:25 M.H.VanLeeuwen
  2001-07-07 13:18 ` Jim Roland
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: M.H.VanLeeuwen @ 2001-07-07  5:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi,

I have a SMP P166 system that has been running for years with an AIC7xxx SCSI card as
opposed to the native IDE interface.  The BIOS has the IDE 0,1,2,3 set to <NONE>.
Running out of disk space I installed one of the original IDE drives. The kernel
booted and ID'd the drive correctly.  Kernel version 2.4.5/6 behave the same.

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 10
CMD646: chipset revision 1
CMD646: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
CMD646: chipset revision 0x01, MultiWord DMA Limited, IRQ workaround enabled
CMD646: simplex device:  DMA disabled
ide0: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
CMD646: simplex device:  DMA disabled
ide1: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hdb: CD-ROM CDU76E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hdc: WDC AC2850F, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: 1667232 sectors (854 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=1654/16/63
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x44
hdb: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
 hdc: [PTBL] [827/32/63] hdc1

However I can't boot from the SCSI drives if the IDE HD is enabled due to deficiencies
in the BIOS... boot "A: then C:" or "C: then A:" are the only choices, if neither are
present the system boots from the SCSI card, otherwise it fails to boot.

PROBLEM: cannot reliably R/W to the HD unless the BIOS is set to <auto> recognize.
I consistently see MD5SUM errors and FS corruption and other strange FS symptoms 
when the BIOS is set to <NONE> for the drive and _never_ see any errors with the
setting set to <AUTO>.  There are no messages emitted by the kernel that there
were any system errors encountered leading one to believe that all is well, when
it isn't.

What is interesting, is that the I/O writes increase from once every 14 seconds to
once every 2-3 seconds and the FS corruption diminishes but don't disappear
if a background "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null" is running.

Is this expected kernel behavior?

VMSTAT follow... when copying files from SCSI drives to IDE drive.

More info available if needed...

Thanks,
Martin

The waiting processes are kupdated and bdflush. (I have Alt-SysRq- trace of them)

VMSTAT 1 for the case w/ BIOS set to <NONE> looks like (w/o dd running):

   procs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
 r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
 0  0  0      0  83180   1056  39800   0   0   261     3   83    43   5   8  87
 0  0  0      0  83176   1056  39800   0   0     0     0  119    20   3   2  95
 0  0  0      0  83176   1056  39800   0   0     0     0  116    20   2   2  96
 0  1  0      0  83012   1096  39812   0   0   329     0  196   183   3   8  89
 0  1  0      0  81268   1128  41444   0   0  1021     0  309   275   3  17  80
 0  1  0      0  74464   1200  47716   0   0  3131    27  292   264   6  25  69
 2  0  0      0  67772   1276  53632   0   0  2962     0  397   245  12  25  63
 2  0  0      0  64016   1324  56900   0   0  1602     0  414   155  48  27  26
 1  1  0      0  53924   1372  66608   0   0  4960     0  200   165  14  40  46
 1  0  0      0  42260   1448  77556   0   0  5493     0  232   210   3  35  62
 0  1  0      0  30276   1480  88748   0   0  5616     0  201   124   4  34  62
 2  0  0      0  22580   1496  96044   0   0  3671  2868  307    96   2  33  65
 0  1  0      0  12392   1528 105492   0   0  4771  4852  276   164   5  37  58
 1  0  0      0   3056   1560 114232   0   0  4641  4861  328   200   2  43  54
 1  1  0      0   3056   1588 114192   0   0  5011  4744  281   139   5  39  57
 1  0  1      0   3056   1612 114168   0   0  5269  1728  256   115   4  35  60
 0  1  1      0   3056   1680 114084   0   0  4827     0  271   193   2  33  64
 1  0  1      0   3056   1708 114056   0   0  5268     0  236   106   3  38  59
 2  0  1      0   3056   1748 113864   0   0  3817  3968  315   132   7  44  49
 2  0  1      0   3056   1760 113604   0   0  2955     0  348    63  41  50   9
 1  0  1      0   3056   1788 113940   0   0  4258     0  247    97  41  46  13
 1  0  1      0   3056   1844 113880   0   0  4246     0  281   168   4  36  60
 0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0  2955     0  209    69   3  19  78
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  149    27   2   3  95
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  147    19   2   3  95
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  152    18   2   3  95
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  147    16   2   4  94
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  147    16   1   4  94
 0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0  3613  156    28   1   5  94
 0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  148    14   2   2  96
 0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  150    18   2   4  94
 0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  151    18   1   5  94
 0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  147    18   2   3  95
 0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  151    18   2   2  96
 0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  183    27   2   4  94
 0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  183    18   2   2  95
 0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  186    18   2   3  95
 0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  182    23   1   4  95
 0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  184    18   2   4  94
 0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  185    20   2   1  96
 0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  181    18   2   1  96
 0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0  3852  184    21   2   3  95
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  181    24   1   4  94
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  165    16   1   2  96
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  184    14   1   4  95
 0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  183    24   1   3  95
 0  1  2      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  185    12   2   4  94
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     3     0  195    53   3   4  93
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  183    24   2   2  96
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  184    18   2   3  94
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  185    16   2   3  95
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  184    20   2   2  95
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  191    20   2   4  94
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  186    14   2   3  95
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  182    24   1   2  96
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0  3964  183    18   1   5  93
 0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  183    24   1   2  97
 0  1  2      0   3144   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  173    20   2   5  93
 0  1  2      0   3160   1856 113848   0   0     0     0  160    19   2   5  94
 0  1  2      0   3160   1856 113848   0   0     0     0  158    18   1   3  96
 0  1  2      0   3160   1856 113848   0   0     0     0  152    24   2   3  95


Here is VMSTAT 1 for the case where the IDE is set to <AUTO> in the bios:

   procs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
 r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
 0  0  0      0  82928   1048  39776   0   0   202     3   78    35   5   6  89
 0  0  0      0  82824   1052  39784   0   0     6     0  135    51   3   1  95
 0  1  0      0  82684   1068  39796   0   0    38     0  127    43   3   4  93
 0  1  0      0  82652   1092  39796   0   0   364     0  223   208   3   4  93
 1  0  0      0  78776   1164  43392   0   0  1957     0  331   316   4  14  82
 1  0  1      0  71684   1224  49956   0   0  3231     0  309   239   5  20  75
 0  1  0      0  65376   1304  55752   0   0  2835     0  340   250   1  18  80
 1  0  0      0  55412   1364  65056   0   0  4746     2  233   187   4  29  67
 1  0  0      0  43460   1432  76220   0   0  5560     0  207   181   3  31  66
 1  0  0      0  31276   1472  87680   0   0  5806     0  194   125   1  35  64
 0  1  0      0  21084   1496  97216   0   0  4685   157  234   102   4  29  67
 1  0  0      0  13580   1520 104244   0   0  3628  3328  615   126   3  56  41
 1  0  0      0   6352   1552 111072   0   0  3417  3584  709   123   3  59  38
 1  0  0      0   3056   1560 114148   0   0  2951  3072  577   138   4  59  38
 1  0  0      0   3056   1580 114128   0   0  3086  2940  611    82   4  52  45
 1  0  0      0   3056   1600 114108   0   0  4182  4352  647    94   3  71  26
 1  0  0      0   3056   1636 114064   0   0  3217  3072  701   150   3  60  37
 1  0  1      0   3056   1676 114016   0   0  3666  3840  674   141   3  58  39
 1  0  0      0   3056   1700 113992   0   0  3691  3328  600   102   3  58  39
 1  0  0      0   3056   1720 113972   0   0  3729  3578  639   110   2  62  36
 1  0  0      0   3056   1752 113936   0   0  3464  3627  674   142   6  58  36
 1  0  0      0   3056   1772 113916   0   0  3598  3532  627   102   3  64  34
 1  0  0      0   3056   1804 113880   0   0  3296  3328  610   130   4  61  35
 3  0  0      0   3056   1836 113796   0   0  3392  3584  697   140   3  61  37
 2  0  0      0   3056   1848 113604   0   0  2827  2816  594   105  12  62  27
 1  1  0      0   3056   1880 113404   0   0  2234  2551  604   107  34  59   8
 2  0  0      0   3056   1912 113364   0   0  2838  2816  565   139  40  51   8
 1  0  0      0   3056   1988 113648   0   0  3148  3328  667   213  11  57  32
 1  0  0      0   3056   2032 113600   0   0  2761  3328  612   162   2  59  39
 0  1  1      0   3056   2088 113540   0   0  3061  3322  676   180   2  56  42
 1  0  0      0   3056   2120 113504   0   0  3542  3789  670   137   4  57  39
 1  0  0      0   3056   2164 113452   0   0  3102  3325  668   147   4  49  47
 1  0  0      0   3056   2192 113424   0   0  3602  3575  678    99   3  59  38
 1  0  0      0   3056   2224 113388   0   0  3311  3539  703   134   0  61  39
 1  0  0      0   3056   2212 113396   0   0  3451  3584  615   114   4  62  34
 1  0  0      0   3056   2252 113348   0   0  3675  3840  672   126   3  57  40
 1  0  0      0   3056   2292 113304   0   0  3066  3328  695   162   3  56  42
 1  0  0      0   3056   2324 113272   0   0  3347  3262  628   129   4  54  42
 1  0  1      0   3056   2340 113244   0   0  2755  3072  612   103   3  60  38
 1  0  0      0   3056   2352 113244   0   0  3830  3581  681   125   4  60  36
 1  0  0      0   3056   2400 113196   0   0  3408  3584  656   144   4  56  39
 1  0  0      0   3056   2424 113172   0   0  3758  3840  671   136   2  59  39
 1  0  0      0   3056   2432 113164   0   0  2726  2780  611   108   3  57  40
 1  0  0      0   3056   2492 113052   0   0  2432  3072  659   299   2  49  49
 2  0  0      0   3056   2612 112820   0   0  2355  3072  830   651   6  54  41
 1  0  0      0   3056   2748 112596   0   0  2041  2816  708   421   6  46  49
 1  0  1      0   3056   2908 112380   0   0  2839  3304  716   364   3  58  39
 0  1  1      0   3056   3060 112184   0   0  3121  3840  729   352   3  62  35
 1  0  1      0   3056   3164 112060   0   0  2204  2816  570   179   4  43  53
 1  0  1      0   3056   3260 111840   0   0  2094  2560  684   335   4  50  46
 1  0  1      0   3056   3320 111764   0   0  2867  3584  675   207   3  59  38
 1  0  0      0   3056   3364 111240   0   0   430  2268  857   823   3  51  45
 1  0  0      0   3056   3424 110928   0   0  1460  2560  707   551   5  42  53
 1  0  0      0   3056   3512 110728   0   0  2267  2816  783   592   3  50  47
 0  1  0      0   3056   3564 110448   0   0  1952  3069  897   836   5  49  46
 1  0  1      0   3056   3708 110248   0   0  2424  3145  743   357   3  50  47
 0  1  1      0   3056   3864 110116   0   0  2552  3328  727   430   3  49  49

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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
  2001-07-07  5:25 M.H.VanLeeuwen
@ 2001-07-07 13:18 ` Jim Roland
  2001-07-07 13:47   ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Jim Roland @ 2001-07-07 13:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: M.H.VanLeeuwen, linux-kernel

Activating an IDE drive in an older BIOS (newer ones have a SCSI option in
the "A/C/CDROM" options) will always force an IDE drive boot with older
BIOSes.  Older BIOSes are written to stop looking for a boot device once it
has found one, and it's own IDE is where it says "Ok, I have boot
capability", otherwise no IDE drive, means it passes boot control to other
system BIOSes (like your SCSI or NIC cards).  This is by default with older
systems.

I expect someone will rebut my comments about the kernel (which is fine, I'm
not a Kernel hacker--PROPERLY USED TERM HERE (not the media's term) <grin>),
but it is my understanding that the kernel uses your system BIOS for actual
reads/writes at the hardware level, this way it does not have to account for
EVERY possible BIOS out there.  (Other OSes use BIOS system calls for this
purpose as well)  When you turn BIOS to <NONE> the OS does what it can, but
the BIOS in your system *SHOULD* refuse to process the call, instead it's
doing the read/writes, but not the same way as if IDE was turned on.

My suggestion is that you install the OS onto the IDE drive, let it boot,
and use it for a boot only drive.  Mount user data from your SCSI drive onto
the IDE's mount points.  Otherwise, since your reason for doing this is that
you're out of space, add another SCSI drive.

Are you getting IDE corruption with the BIOS set to <AUTO> for your IDE
drive?

Regards,
Jim Roland, RHCE


----- Original Message -----
From: "M.H.VanLeeuwen" <vanl@megsinet.net>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 12:25 AM
Subject: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?


> Hi,
>
> I have a SMP P166 system that has been running for years with an AIC7xxx
SCSI card as
> opposed to the native IDE interface.  The BIOS has the IDE 0,1,2,3 set to
<NONE>.
> Running out of disk space I installed one of the original IDE drives. The
kernel
> booted and ID'd the drive correctly.  Kernel version 2.4.5/6 behave the
same.
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
> CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 10
> CMD646: chipset revision 1
> CMD646: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> CMD646: chipset revision 0x01, MultiWord DMA Limited, IRQ workaround
enabled
> CMD646: simplex device:  DMA disabled
> ide0: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> CMD646: simplex device:  DMA disabled
> ide1: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> hdb: CD-ROM CDU76E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
> hdc: WDC AC2850F, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hdc: 1667232 sectors (854 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=1654/16/63
> hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: packet command error: error=0x44
> hdb: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> Partition check:
>  hdc: [PTBL] [827/32/63] hdc1
>
> However I can't boot from the SCSI drives if the IDE HD is enabled due to
deficiencies
> in the BIOS... boot "A: then C:" or "C: then A:" are the only choices, if
neither are
> present the system boots from the SCSI card, otherwise it fails to boot.
>
> PROBLEM: cannot reliably R/W to the HD unless the BIOS is set to <auto>
recognize.
> I consistently see MD5SUM errors and FS corruption and other strange FS
symptoms
> when the BIOS is set to <NONE> for the drive and _never_ see any errors
with the
> setting set to <AUTO>.  There are no messages emitted by the kernel that
there
> were any system errors encountered leading one to believe that all is
well, when
> it isn't.
>
> What is interesting, is that the I/O writes increase from once every 14
seconds to
> once every 2-3 seconds and the FS corruption diminishes but don't
disappear
> if a background "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null" is running.
>
> Is this expected kernel behavior?
>
> VMSTAT follow... when copying files from SCSI drives to IDE drive.
>
> More info available if needed...
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> The waiting processes are kupdated and bdflush. (I have Alt-SysRq- trace
of them)
>
> VMSTAT 1 for the case w/ BIOS set to <NONE> looks like (w/o dd running):
>
>    procs                      memory    swap          io     system
cpu
>  r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us
sy  id
>  0  0  0      0  83180   1056  39800   0   0   261     3   83    43   5
8  87
>  0  0  0      0  83176   1056  39800   0   0     0     0  119    20   3
2  95
>  0  0  0      0  83176   1056  39800   0   0     0     0  116    20   2
2  96
>  0  1  0      0  83012   1096  39812   0   0   329     0  196   183   3
8  89
>  0  1  0      0  81268   1128  41444   0   0  1021     0  309   275   3
17  80
>  0  1  0      0  74464   1200  47716   0   0  3131    27  292   264   6
25  69
>  2  0  0      0  67772   1276  53632   0   0  2962     0  397   245  12
25  63
>  2  0  0      0  64016   1324  56900   0   0  1602     0  414   155  48
27  26
>  1  1  0      0  53924   1372  66608   0   0  4960     0  200   165  14
40  46
>  1  0  0      0  42260   1448  77556   0   0  5493     0  232   210   3
35  62
>  0  1  0      0  30276   1480  88748   0   0  5616     0  201   124   4
34  62
>  2  0  0      0  22580   1496  96044   0   0  3671  2868  307    96   2
33  65
>  0  1  0      0  12392   1528 105492   0   0  4771  4852  276   164   5
37  58
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1560 114232   0   0  4641  4861  328   200   2
43  54
>  1  1  0      0   3056   1588 114192   0   0  5011  4744  281   139   5
39  57
>  1  0  1      0   3056   1612 114168   0   0  5269  1728  256   115   4
35  60
>  0  1  1      0   3056   1680 114084   0   0  4827     0  271   193   2
33  64
>  1  0  1      0   3056   1708 114056   0   0  5268     0  236   106   3
38  59
>  2  0  1      0   3056   1748 113864   0   0  3817  3968  315   132   7
44  49
>  2  0  1      0   3056   1760 113604   0   0  2955     0  348    63  41
50   9
>  1  0  1      0   3056   1788 113940   0   0  4258     0  247    97  41
46  13
>  1  0  1      0   3056   1844 113880   0   0  4246     0  281   168   4
36  60
>  0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0  2955     0  209    69   3
19  78
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  149    27   2
3  95
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  147    19   2
3  95
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  152    18   2
3  95
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  147    16   2
4  94
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  147    16   1
4  94
>  0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0  3613  156    28   1
5  94
>  0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  148    14   2
2  96
>  0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  150    18   2
4  94
>  0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  151    18   1
5  94
>  0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  147    18   2
3  95
>  0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  151    18   2
2  96
>  0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  183    27   2
4  94
>  0  1  1      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  183    18   2
2  95
>  0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  186    18   2
3  95
>  0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  182    23   1
4  95
>  0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  184    18   2
4  94
>  0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  185    20   2
1  96
>  0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  181    18   2
1  96
>  0  1  1      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0  3852  184    21   2
3  95
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  181    24   1
4  94
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  165    16   1
2  96
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  184    14   1
4  95
>  0  1  2      0   3064   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  183    24   1
3  95
>  0  1  2      0   3060   1856 113868   0   0     0     0  185    12   2
4  94
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     3     0  195    53   3
4  93
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  183    24   2
2  96
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  184    18   2
3  94
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  185    16   2
3  95
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  184    20   2
2  95
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  191    20   2
4  94
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  186    14   2
3  95
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  182    24   1
2  96
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0  3964  183    18   1
5  93
>  0  1  2      0   3056   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  183    24   1
2  97
>  0  1  2      0   3144   1856 113864   0   0     0     0  173    20   2
5  93
>  0  1  2      0   3160   1856 113848   0   0     0     0  160    19   2
5  94
>  0  1  2      0   3160   1856 113848   0   0     0     0  158    18   1
3  96
>  0  1  2      0   3160   1856 113848   0   0     0     0  152    24   2
3  95
>
>
> Here is VMSTAT 1 for the case where the IDE is set to <AUTO> in the bios:
>
>    procs                      memory    swap          io     system
cpu
>  r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us
sy  id
>  0  0  0      0  82928   1048  39776   0   0   202     3   78    35   5
6  89
>  0  0  0      0  82824   1052  39784   0   0     6     0  135    51   3
1  95
>  0  1  0      0  82684   1068  39796   0   0    38     0  127    43   3
4  93
>  0  1  0      0  82652   1092  39796   0   0   364     0  223   208   3
4  93
>  1  0  0      0  78776   1164  43392   0   0  1957     0  331   316   4
14  82
>  1  0  1      0  71684   1224  49956   0   0  3231     0  309   239   5
20  75
>  0  1  0      0  65376   1304  55752   0   0  2835     0  340   250   1
18  80
>  1  0  0      0  55412   1364  65056   0   0  4746     2  233   187   4
29  67
>  1  0  0      0  43460   1432  76220   0   0  5560     0  207   181   3
31  66
>  1  0  0      0  31276   1472  87680   0   0  5806     0  194   125   1
35  64
>  0  1  0      0  21084   1496  97216   0   0  4685   157  234   102   4
29  67
>  1  0  0      0  13580   1520 104244   0   0  3628  3328  615   126   3
56  41
>  1  0  0      0   6352   1552 111072   0   0  3417  3584  709   123   3
59  38
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1560 114148   0   0  2951  3072  577   138   4
59  38
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1580 114128   0   0  3086  2940  611    82   4
52  45
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1600 114108   0   0  4182  4352  647    94   3
71  26
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1636 114064   0   0  3217  3072  701   150   3
60  37
>  1  0  1      0   3056   1676 114016   0   0  3666  3840  674   141   3
58  39
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1700 113992   0   0  3691  3328  600   102   3
58  39
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1720 113972   0   0  3729  3578  639   110   2
62  36
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1752 113936   0   0  3464  3627  674   142   6
58  36
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1772 113916   0   0  3598  3532  627   102   3
64  34
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1804 113880   0   0  3296  3328  610   130   4
61  35
>  3  0  0      0   3056   1836 113796   0   0  3392  3584  697   140   3
61  37
>  2  0  0      0   3056   1848 113604   0   0  2827  2816  594   105  12
62  27
>  1  1  0      0   3056   1880 113404   0   0  2234  2551  604   107  34
59   8
>  2  0  0      0   3056   1912 113364   0   0  2838  2816  565   139  40
51   8
>  1  0  0      0   3056   1988 113648   0   0  3148  3328  667   213  11
57  32
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2032 113600   0   0  2761  3328  612   162   2
59  39
>  0  1  1      0   3056   2088 113540   0   0  3061  3322  676   180   2
56  42
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2120 113504   0   0  3542  3789  670   137   4
57  39
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2164 113452   0   0  3102  3325  668   147   4
49  47
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2192 113424   0   0  3602  3575  678    99   3
59  38
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2224 113388   0   0  3311  3539  703   134   0
61  39
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2212 113396   0   0  3451  3584  615   114   4
62  34
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2252 113348   0   0  3675  3840  672   126   3
57  40
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2292 113304   0   0  3066  3328  695   162   3
56  42
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2324 113272   0   0  3347  3262  628   129   4
54  42
>  1  0  1      0   3056   2340 113244   0   0  2755  3072  612   103   3
60  38
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2352 113244   0   0  3830  3581  681   125   4
60  36
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2400 113196   0   0  3408  3584  656   144   4
56  39
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2424 113172   0   0  3758  3840  671   136   2
59  39
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2432 113164   0   0  2726  2780  611   108   3
57  40
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2492 113052   0   0  2432  3072  659   299   2
49  49
>  2  0  0      0   3056   2612 112820   0   0  2355  3072  830   651   6
54  41
>  1  0  0      0   3056   2748 112596   0   0  2041  2816  708   421   6
46  49
>  1  0  1      0   3056   2908 112380   0   0  2839  3304  716   364   3
58  39
>  0  1  1      0   3056   3060 112184   0   0  3121  3840  729   352   3
62  35
>  1  0  1      0   3056   3164 112060   0   0  2204  2816  570   179   4
43  53
>  1  0  1      0   3056   3260 111840   0   0  2094  2560  684   335   4
50  46
>  1  0  1      0   3056   3320 111764   0   0  2867  3584  675   207   3
59  38
>  1  0  0      0   3056   3364 111240   0   0   430  2268  857   823   3
51  45
>  1  0  0      0   3056   3424 110928   0   0  1460  2560  707   551   5
42  53
>  1  0  0      0   3056   3512 110728   0   0  2267  2816  783   592   3
50  47
>  0  1  0      0   3056   3564 110448   0   0  1952  3069  897   836   5
49  46
>  1  0  1      0   3056   3708 110248   0   0  2424  3145  743   357   3
50  47
>  0  1  1      0   3056   3864 110116   0   0  2552  3328  727   430   3
49  49
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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
  2001-07-07 13:18 ` Jim Roland
@ 2001-07-07 13:47   ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
  2001-07-07 20:42     ` Jim Roland
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: M.H.VanLeeuwen @ 2001-07-07 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jim Roland; +Cc: linux-kernel

Jim,

Thanks for the info, comments interleaved below

Thanks
Martin

Jim Roland wrote:
> 
> Activating an IDE drive in an older BIOS (newer ones have a SCSI option in
> the "A/C/CDROM" options) will always force an IDE drive boot with older
> BIOSes.  Older BIOSes are written to stop looking for a boot device once it
> has found one, and it's own IDE is where it says "Ok, I have boot
> capability", otherwise no IDE drive, means it passes boot control to other
> system BIOSes (like your SCSI or NIC cards).  This is by default with older
> systems.

This behavior is acceptable, as I can as you suggest move the kernel to the
IDE and tell it the root device is /dev/md0.  Actually that is what I did
to a floppy to get access to the system while the BIOS was set to <auto>
detect the IDE drives.   Since I only boot whenever Linus puts out a new
kernel that isn't so much of a concern.

> 
> I expect someone will rebut my comments about the kernel (which is fine, I'm
> not a Kernel hacker--PROPERLY USED TERM HERE (not the media's term) <grin>),
> but it is my understanding that the kernel uses your system BIOS for actual
> reads/writes at the hardware level, this way it does not have to account for
> EVERY possible BIOS out there.  (Other OSes use BIOS system calls for this
> purpose as well)  When you turn BIOS to <NONE> the OS does what it can, but
> the BIOS in your system *SHOULD* refuse to process the call, instead it's
> doing the read/writes, but not the same way as if IDE was turned on.

But, that's kind of the point I'm driving at if the OS can't correctly access the
IDE interface it shouldn't do it at all.

My guess is that the CMD64X driver is broken since the system can write data
to the HD but with random corruption. Ditto for reading data.  Likewise,
why would I see an increase in write performance when "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null"
is running simultaneously on another console.

> Are you getting IDE corruption with the BIOS set to <AUTO> for your IDE
> drive?

None whatsoever.

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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
  2001-07-07 13:47   ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
@ 2001-07-07 20:42     ` Jim Roland
  2001-07-07 20:50       ` Rik van Riel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Jim Roland @ 2001-07-07 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: M.H.VanLeeuwen; +Cc: linux-kernel


----- Original Message -----
From: "M.H.VanLeeuwen" <vanl@megsinet.net>
To: "Jim Roland" <jroland@roland.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS
errors?


> Jim,
>
> Thanks for the info, comments interleaved below
>
[snip]
>
> But, that's kind of the point I'm driving at if the OS can't correctly
access the
> IDE interface it shouldn't do it at all.

Right.  It's possible that your BIOS may be letting the kernel write.  While
I don't write the kernel, it's probably best for Linus to answer this one,
but it's possible that the kernel is making a BIOS call, and the BIOS does
not refuse to write data (which it should just say "no IDE drives are on the
system right now") with the IDE setting to <NONE> in your BIOS.  OTOH, the
kernel may be making calls of it's own or as you say, there may be a broken
driver.  I seem to remember there was a "bug workaround" option in the
kernel for the CMD640 chipset.

> > Are you getting IDE corruption with the BIOS set to <AUTO> for your IDE
> > drive?
>
> None whatsoever.

Then AFAIK, it's definitely a BIOS issue. There might be (if not there
already) a kernel option to check to see what the BIOS setting is for number
of IDE drives (of course set to <NONE> would mean 0 drives), and refuse to
write it.  This workaround (if any) would be required for buggy BIOSes (I'm
sure yours isn't the only one <grin>).




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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
  2001-07-07 20:42     ` Jim Roland
@ 2001-07-07 20:50       ` Rik van Riel
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Rik van Riel @ 2001-07-07 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jim Roland; +Cc: M.H.VanLeeuwen, linux-kernel

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Jim Roland wrote:

> but it's possible that the kernel is making a BIOS call,

Not really ...

Rik
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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
@ 2001-07-08 14:41 Adam Kropelin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Adam Kropelin @ 2001-07-08 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Jim Roland said:
>I expect someone will rebut my comments about the kernel (which is fine, I'm 
>not a Kernel hacker

Okay, I'll take the bait, but I'm not a kernel hacker, either, so someone 
should feel free to rebut *my* comments as well.

>but it is my understanding that the kernel uses your system BIOS for actual 
>reads/writes at the hardware level, 

No. There are many reasons this isn't done, but a big one is:

BIOS = real mode
Kernel = protected mode

The kernel makes use of some BIOS *tables* (which are coped to known 
locations before the Big Switch), but actual BIOS interrupt routines are used 
only during the early stages of boot. Aside from the RM/PM issue, the BIOS 
isn't used because it is 16-bit, slow, and generally buggy.

See Alan Cox's paper on kernel BIOS usage posted back on 6/22/01 for a nice 
discussion of what use the kernel has for the BIOS.

>When you turn BIOS to <NONE> the OS does what it can, but 
>the BIOS in your system *SHOULD* refuse to process the call, instead it's 
>doing the read/writes, but not the same way as if IDE was turned on. 

An interesting theory, but off the mark.

That said, I don't know what the Right Answer for Martin is, but here are a 
few ideas:

* I notice the boot log shows a CMD646 IDE controller. Make sure the CMD640 
bug-fix support is enabled in your kernel (assuming this applies to 64x 
chips). If you're using a vendor's kernel it almost certainly is already, but 
if you built your own, make sure.

* It is possible that when a drive is assigned in the BIOS, the BIOS will do 
some configuration of the controller or the drive itself which the kernel is 
not doing on its own. I don't know what the state of kernel support for that 
646 chipset is.

* That's a pretty old drive, so I wouldn't rule out hardware problems. 
Strange that it only fails when not configured in the BIOS, though.

Regards,
Adam


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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
@ 2001-07-09  3:21 andre
  2001-07-09 12:30 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
  2001-07-10  3:41 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: andre @ 2001-07-09  3:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: vanl, linux-kernel

Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?

From: M.H.VanLeeuwen (vanl@megsinet.net)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 00:25:58 EST 

Hi, 

I have a SMP P166 system that has been running for years with an AIC7xxx
SCSI card as 
opposed to the native IDE interface. The BIOS has the IDE 0,1,2,3 set to
<NONE>. 
Running out of disk space I installed one of the original IDE drives.
The kernel 
booted and ID'd the drive correctly. Kernel version 2.4.5/6 behave the
same. 

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx 
CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 10 
CMD646: chipset revision 1 
CMD646: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later 
CMD646: chipset revision 0x01, MultiWord DMA Limited, IRQ workaround
enabled 
CMD646: simplex device: DMA disabled 
ide0: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) 
CMD646: simplex device: DMA disabled 
ide1: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) 
hdb: CD-ROM CDU76E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive 
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx 
hdc: WDC AC2850F, ATA DISK drive 
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 
hdc: 1667232 sectors (854 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=1654/16/63 
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 
hdb: packet command error: error=0x44 
hdb: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache 
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 
Partition check: 
 hdc: [PTBL] [827/32/63] hdc1 

However I can't boot from the SCSI drives if the IDE HD is enabled due
to deficiencies 
in the BIOS... boot "A: then C:" or "C: then A:" are the only choices,
if neither are 
present the system boots from the SCSI card, otherwise it fails to boot. 

PROBLEM: cannot reliably R/W to the HD unless the BIOS is set to <auto>
recognize. 
I consistently see MD5SUM errors and FS corruption and other strange FS
symptoms 
when the BIOS is set to <NONE> for the drive and _never_ see any errors
with the 
setting set to <AUTO>. There are no messages emitted by the kernel that
there 
were any system errors encountered leading one to believe that all is
well, when 
it isn't. 

What is interesting, is that the I/O writes increase from once every 14
seconds to 
once every 2-3 seconds and the FS corruption diminishes but don't
disappear 
if a background "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null" is running. 

Is this expected kernel behavior? 

VMSTAT follow... when copying files from SCSI drives to IDE drive. 

More info available if needed... 

Thanks, 
Martin 


Martin, you have an old beast that there are problems in how the chipset
was deployed.
How are you confirming the corruption against the various layers in the
kernel?
If you would like patches & tests to verify I will send them to you.

Cheers

-- 
Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
ASL Kernel Development
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
  2001-07-09  3:21 andre
@ 2001-07-09 12:30 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
  2001-07-10  3:41 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: M.H.VanLeeuwen @ 2001-07-09 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: andre; +Cc: linux-kernel

Andre,

Yes, I'd be willing to test ideas / apply any patches you'd like to try.

I was running something like this to verify corruption:

while true ; do mount /dev/hdc1 /misc ;time cp -a /usr/local/soffice52 /misc ; \
             cd /misc && md5sum --check /tmp/soffice.md5 ; cd ; umount /misc; \
             e2fsck -f -y /dev/hdc1 ; done

md5sum reported errors on the order of 28-37 corrupted files out of 576 files
copy time ~11 minutes

with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null running on another terminal, 
md5sum only reported 3-8 files corrupted.
copy time ~2.5 minutes

Thanks
Martin

BTW:

here is one of the many and more verbose reports of FS corruption from e2fsck:

e2fsck 1.20, 25-May-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 44863, i_size is 56832, should be 3502080.  Fix? yes
 
Inode 44863, i_blocks is 120, should be 144.  Fix? yes
 
Duplicate blocks found... invoking duplicate block passes.
Pass 1B: Rescan for duplicate/bad blocks
Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 15303: 37632
Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 44863: 37632 113 16
Pass 1C: Scan directories for inodes with dup blocks.
Pass 1D: Reconciling duplicate blocks
(There are 2 inodes containing duplicate/bad blocks.)
 
File /office52/share/basic/template.sbl (inode #44863, mod time Mon May  8 01:20:00 2000)
  has 3 duplicate block(s), shared with 2 file(s):
        <filesystem metadata>
        /office52/share/gallery/clipart/glas.wmf (inode #15303, mod time Mon May  8 01:20:00 2000)
Clone duplicate/bad blocks? yes
 
File /office52/share/gallery/clipart/glas.wmf (inode #15303, mod time Mon May  8 01:20:00 2000)
  has 1 duplicate block(s), shared with 2 file(s):
        <filesystem metadata>
        /office52/share/basic/template.sbl (inode #44863, mod time Mon May  8 01:20:00 2000)
Duplicated blocks already reassigned or cloned.
 
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong for group #0 (30518, counted=30515).
Fix? yes
 
Free blocks count wrong (140220, counted=140217).
Fix? yes
 
 
/dev/hda1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hda1: 3036/104384 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 68179/208396 blocks


andre@linux-ide.org wrote:
> 
> Martin, you have an old beast that there are problems in how the chipset
> was deployed.
> How are you confirming the corruption against the various layers in the
> kernel?
> If you would like patches & tests to verify I will send them to you.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --
> Andre Hedrick
> Linux ATA Development
> ASL Kernel Development
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ASL, Inc.                                     Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535
> 1757 Houret Court                             Fax: 1-408-941-2071
> Milpitas, CA 95035                            Web: www.aslab.com

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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
  2001-07-09  3:21 andre
  2001-07-09 12:30 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
@ 2001-07-10  3:41 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
  2001-07-10  6:37   ` Andre Hedrick
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: M.H.VanLeeuwen @ 2001-07-10  3:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: andre; +Cc: linux-kernel

Andre,

I had a chance to play a little more today, here is what I've come up with:

a. w/ hdc disable in BIOS, changing the PIO mode to 0 or 1 seems to allow the
   system to run error free.  PIO mode 3 still has silent FS corruption issues.

b. w/ hdc enabled in BIOS, the PIO mode doesn't seem to matter. (except for speed;)

c. CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO affects the number of interrupts needed to complete
   each block xfer.  With it enabled the number of IRQ's per second ~600.
   With it disabled ~2/block or 5000-6000 per second.  I thought from the dmesg
   output that DMA was disabled and this option should have no affect.

   > CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 10
   > CMD646: chipset revision 1
   > CMD646: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
   > CMD646: chipset revision 0x01, MultiWord DMA Limited, IRQ workaround enabled
   > CMD646: simplex device:  DMA disabled
   > ide0: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
   > CMD646: simplex device:  DMA disabled
   > ide1: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)

d. CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO does not seem to affect the outcome of "a" or "b" above.

Martin

andre@linux-ide.org wrote:
> 
> Martin, you have an old beast that there are problems in how the chipset
> was deployed.
> How are you confirming the corruption against the various layers in the
> kernel?
> If you would like patches & tests to verify I will send them to you.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --
> Andre Hedrick
> Linux ATA Development
> ASL Kernel Development
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* Re: Does kernel require IDE enabled in BIOS to access HD, FS errors?
  2001-07-10  3:41 ` M.H.VanLeeuwen
@ 2001-07-10  6:37   ` Andre Hedrick
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Andre Hedrick @ 2001-07-10  6:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: M.H.VanLeeuwen; +Cc: linux-kernel


There appears to be a max-pio sync error.
Specifically PIO is used to setup all transfers regardless of
DMA/Multi/PIO and if that is wrong the the rest is toast.

CMD has the strangest interlace of PIO ever.

PIO can only as hast as the slowest device.

I need to think about this some more, kick me to keep me on task.

Cheers,

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:

> Andre,
> 
> I had a chance to play a little more today, here is what I've come up with:
> 
> a. w/ hdc disable in BIOS, changing the PIO mode to 0 or 1 seems to allow the
>    system to run error free.  PIO mode 3 still has silent FS corruption issues.
> 
> b. w/ hdc enabled in BIOS, the PIO mode doesn't seem to matter. (except for speed;)
> 
> c. CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO affects the number of interrupts needed to complete
>    each block xfer.  With it enabled the number of IRQ's per second ~600.
>    With it disabled ~2/block or 5000-6000 per second.  I thought from the dmesg
>    output that DMA was disabled and this option should have no affect.
> 
>    > CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 10
>    > CMD646: chipset revision 1
>    > CMD646: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>    > CMD646: chipset revision 0x01, MultiWord DMA Limited, IRQ workaround enabled
>    > CMD646: simplex device:  DMA disabled
>    > ide0: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
>    > CMD646: simplex device:  DMA disabled
>    > ide1: CMD646 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> 
> d. CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO does not seem to affect the outcome of "a" or "b" above.
> 
> Martin
> 
> andre@linux-ide.org wrote:
> > 
> > Martin, you have an old beast that there are problems in how the chipset
> > was deployed.
> > How are you confirming the corruption against the various layers in the
> > kernel?
> > If you would like patches & tests to verify I will send them to you.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > --
> > Andre Hedrick
> > Linux ATA Development
> > ASL Kernel Development
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ASL, Inc.                                     Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535
> > 1757 Houret Court                             Fax: 1-408-941-2071
> > Milpitas, CA 95035                            Web: www.aslab.com
> 

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
ASL Kernel Development
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