File System Corruption with 2.2.18

[Terrence Martin <tmartin@cal.montage.ca>]

I am having all sorts of nasty file corruption problems with 2.2.18
patched with
ide.2.2.18.1221.patch.gz
linux-2.2.18-reiserfs-3.5.29-patch.gz
raid-2.2.18-B0

The corruption is occuring on my WDC AC28400R(I also had a problem with
a 13GB WDC as well which I swapped out last night). This is the only
hard drive that is on the onboard controller which is a VIA Technologies
VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6) chipset. The drive does share the IDE bus
with a internal ATAPI Zip drive. The cable I am using to connect the WDC
is a UDMA66 40pin 80 wire cable. I realize I do not have a UDMA66
controller, or disk, but I was having problems installing with a
standard 40 pin, 40 wire cable that the 80 wire seemed to alleviate.

The other drives are my software RAID setup on 2 Promise PDC20262
controllers with 1 drive per interface for a total of 4 drives. These
drives are Quantum 13X(?) 13GB drives. I am running the default RH6.2
kernel right now for stability with no support for my promise
controllers and I am writing this from a remote site so not sure of
other distinguishing marks of the quantum HD's.

So my question is does anyone have any idea what might cause ide dma
errors to occur when I use this kernel? As I mentioned file corruption
seems to only occur on the WDC drive(s) and manisfest itself as
executables suddenly becoming unreadable binary files, strange file
permissions on new files, and X windows going completely nuts when it
tries to start. I reboot back to the stock 2.2.14 with RH and everything
seems to work fine, excepting that I cannot access my RAID device of
course. :)

I have had this problem across two mother boards(both VIA chipsets), two
CPU's, two WDC Hard drives and the cable swap. I have not swapped RAM.

Thanks for any assistance/suggestions that you might be able to render.

Regards
Terrence Martin

P.S. More specific system information follows

hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 nowerr       =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    =  8 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/16/63, sectors = 16514064, start = 0

hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

 Model=WDC AC28400R, FwRev=15.01J55, SerialNo=WD-WM6280172815
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs
FmtGapReq }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
 BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off

 DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=16514064
 tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:160,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2

cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C597 Apollo VP3 (rev 4).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=16.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000008].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3 AGP (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=12.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 71).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
    IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=64.
      I/O at 0xb400 [0xb401].
  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
    Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device
(rev 1).
      Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d38.
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 5.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.
      I/O at 0xb800 [0xb801].
      I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbc01].
      I/O at 0xc000 [0xc001].
      I/O at 0xc400 [0xc401].
      I/O at 0xc800 [0xc801].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xea000000].
  Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
    Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device
(rev 1).
      Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d38.
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.
      I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc01].
      I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
      I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
      I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea020000 [0xea020000].
  Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 36).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min
Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
      I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea040000 [0xea040000].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: NVidia/SGS Thomson Riva 128 (rev 16).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 5.  Master
Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 [0xe6000008].



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