From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.5-ac3: qlogic corruption on alpha
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:17:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B144A39.8471B53E@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010529210958.A821@zero>
Tom Vier wrote:
> i narrowed down some corruption i was having. it only happens on drives
> attached to my qlogic isp card. 2.2 has no problem, and in 2.4.5-ac3 my
> sym53c875 works fine. this machine is an alpha miata. it only happens when
> writing out a lot to disk. eg, untarring a kernel tarball, restoring a
> backup. anyone else see this?
Is this reproducible?
A patch went into ac3 which attempts to address qlogicisp problems on
Alpha. It originated from the nether regions deep inside Compaq,
original source unknown. There is a -extraordinarily slight-
possibility this patch (which simply adds "mb()") causes problems.
However, it is more likely that the patch is harmless but also useless,
not fixing the real problem.
Other questions - is your machine SMP? How much RAM?
--
Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail.
Building 1024 |
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-30 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-30 1:09 2.4.5-ac3: qlogic corruption on alpha Tom Vier
2001-05-30 1:17 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-05-30 2:26 ` Tom Vier
2001-05-30 2:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-30 2:32 ` Tom Vier
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