From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 28 19:34:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from got.wedgie.org (got.wedgie.org [216.181.169.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BABF637BEC0 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:34:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgarman@got.wedgie.org) Received: by got.wedgie.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3B809D921; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:34:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:34:20 -0500 From: Jason Garman To: Tim Liddelow Cc: Grigoriy Strokin , Eric Jacoboni , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New kernel with its ATA drivers damages the filesystem Message-ID: <20000328223420.C10913@got.wedgie.org> Reply-To: jgarman@wedgie.org References: <20000328195030.A30092@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <87ln33htuc.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> <20000328221322.A32478@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <38E15BB9.3E3D5AF9@esec.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <38E15BB9.3E3D5AF9@esec.com.au>; from Tim Liddelow on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:26:17AM +1000 X-Phase-Of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (42% of Full) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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