From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:51:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:51:22 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([195.70.145.226]:35314 "EHLO kerberos.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:51:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:51:05 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Martin Laberge Cc: Alan Cox , Tobias Ringstrom , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount Message-ID: <20010112205105.C2740@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <3A5F3D89.5DED9C80@videotron.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A5F3D89.5DED9C80@videotron.ca>; from mlsoft@videotron.ca on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:23:21PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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) > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > 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. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/