Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:26:17 +1000 From: Tim Liddelow <tim@esec.com.au> To: Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru> Cc: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New kernel with its ATA drivers damages the filesystem Message-ID: <38E15BB9.3E3D5AF9@esec.com.au> References: <20000328195030.A30092@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <87ln33htuc.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> <20000328221322.A32478@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
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Grigoriy Strokin wrote: > > > I've had the same problem, it's now fixed with the following line > > added in my /etc/rc.local : > > > > /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio > > > > (i've 2 ide disks + an ATAPI cdrom). > Yes, this is all well and dandy - but this is a _bug_ in the driver. Is there a PR for this ? I am finding similar filesystem corruption - zero length directories, dup inodes, etc frequently - and I don't get the timeout problems. I am now falling back to PIO mode like yourselves, but don't really see this as a long term solution - could it be the PCI IDE chip we use ? More specifically, I am running on a VIA Apollo chipset. Cheers Tim. -- ==================================================================== Tim Liddelow * Firewalls / Security OneGuard Technical Lead * * Electronic Commerce eSec Pty Ltd * Phone: +61 3 8341 2463 C++/UNIX/WIN32/OOP/OOD mailto:tim@esec.com.au * http://www.oneguard.com/ ===================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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