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, 3 May 2002 19:06:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 19:06:39 -0400 Received: from inet-mail3.oracle.com ([148.87.2.203]:46557 "EHLO inet-mail3.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 May 2002 19:06:39 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD316C8.5040006@oracle.com> Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 01:01:28 +0200 From: Alessandro Suardi Organization: Oracle Support Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020326 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl CC: dalecki@evision-ventures.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > < Recap > > > == I have had problems with 2.5.10 (first few blocks of the root > == filesystem overwritten) and then went back to 2.5.8 that I had > == used for a while already, but then also noticed corruption there. > == Back at 2.4.17 today.. > > < Optimistic reply > > > = It could very well be that the recent changes could have cured this. > > < Reality of today > > > Booted a vanilla 2.5.12. It did not succeed in mounting the root > filesystem, but instead wrote zeros over the superblock. > > hdb: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > > Will try 2.5.13 later. Managed to boot all versions (though some ext3 journal replay showed up even after clean shutdowns), seems to be okay and mashed my disk with installing of Portal today - no issue, only a positive note for the 2.5.13 VM which allowed me to finish in 48' what 2.4.19-pre7 couldn't finish in over 2h. Dell laptop with a PIIX4 chipset, btw. --alessandro "the hands that build / can also pull down even the hands of love" (U2, "Exit")