Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:34:20 -0500 From: Jason Garman <jgarman@wedgie.org> To: Tim Liddelow <tim@esec.com.au> Cc: Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru>, Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New kernel with its ATA drivers damages the filesystem Message-ID: <20000328223420.C10913@got.wedgie.org> In-Reply-To: <38E15BB9.3E3D5AF9@esec.com.au>; from Tim Liddelow on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:26:17AM %2B1000 References: <20000328195030.A30092@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <87ln33htuc.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> <20000328221322.A32478@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <38E15BB9.3E3D5AF9@esec.com.au>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:26:17AM +1000, Tim Liddelow wrote: > > 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. > Whats your motherboard? I just trashed an ASUS P2V (which also has a VIA chipset on it) -- same problems, under all OSes that used DMA on the drive. Unfortunate, really. Got a new Abit BE6 instead, works like a dream. Highly recommended. enjoy -- Jason Garman http://web.wedgie.org/ Student, University of Maryland jgarman@wedgie.org From fortune(1): Whois: JAG145 "... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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