From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Martin Laberge <mlsoft@videotron.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Tobias Ringstrom <tori@tellus.mine.nu>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:51:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010112205105.C2740@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14H1Ls-00047Z-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3A5F3D89.5DED9C80@videotron.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3A5F3D89.5DED9C80@videotron.ca>; from mlsoft@videotron.ca on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:23:21PM -0500
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:23:21PM -0500, Martin Laberge wrote:
> > > This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller:
> > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06)
> >
> > There are several people who have reported that the 2.4.0 VIA IDE driver
> > trashes hard disks like that. The 2.2 one also did this sometimes but only
> > with specific chipset versions and if you have dma autotune on (thats why
> > currently 2.2 refuses to do tuning on VP3)
> >
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> I had exactly the same problem with my K6-350 and IDE VT82C586a
> on a kernet 2.2.16 ..... i just made a hdparm to enable DMA and pooffff....
> lost all data .... reinstall necessary from scratch
Is this problem still present with 2.4.0? Well, you don't need to kill
your data to test this - make sure the kernel is mounting the
filesystems read only in the test. DMA will be probably enabled
automatically for your drives.
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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-12 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-12 9:15 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-12 10:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 17:23 ` Martin Laberge
2001-01-12 19:51 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2001-01-12 19:49 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-13 8:12 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-13 14:35 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-13 16:20 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-13 22:36 ` 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-14 8:44 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-14 8:45 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-14 9:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-14 16:37 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-14 17:59 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-14 22:32 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-23 21:39 ` 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, summary Tobias Ringstrom
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