From: A E Lawrence <adrian.lawrence@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
ian@wehrman.com, mhaque@haque.net, adilger@turbolinux.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT2-fs error
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:52:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A99708A.679079C7@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14Wi2k-00009c-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3A98360C.C7258FA6@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> <3A983EDF.E56E6D47@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
A E Lawrence wrote:
>
> A E Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have seen similar problems on stock 2.4.2 a machine which has not run
> > > > 2.4.1.
> > >
> > > What disk controllers ? We really need that sort of info in order to see the
> > > pattern in the odd reports of corruption we get
>
> Problems have just started to show up under 2.2.18, so it is likely that
> the hardware has become flakey. Bit of a coincidence, unless it is a
> side effect of upgrading one of the packages for 2.4.2 :-( or a damaged
> library.
>
> So you had better discount this report. Apologies.
Now investigated: the hardware has not changed. Rather the corruption
under 2.2.18 only happens when hdparm -d1 is executed. I guess that is
well reported, but I had forgotten if I ever knew :-(
In contrast 2.4.2 corruptions happen whether dma is explicitly turned on
by hdparm or not.
[IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10)]
ael
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A E Lawrence
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-25 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-23 19:12 EXT2-fs error Ian Wehrman
2001-02-23 11:46 ` John Heil
2001-02-23 19:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-23 11:50 ` John Heil
2001-02-24 11:02 ` A E Lawrence
2001-02-24 16:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-24 22:30 ` A E Lawrence
2001-02-24 23:08 ` A E Lawrence
2001-02-25 20:52 ` A E Lawrence [this message]
2001-02-25 13:53 ` John Heil
2001-02-25 17:58 ` Mike Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-30 3:06 khromy
2001-03-30 6:57 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-02 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-30 13:49 ` Dale E Martin
2001-02-22 7:02 Mohammad A. Haque
2001-02-22 8:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-22 14:58 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-06 21:50 Ext2-fs error mkloppstech
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