From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 29 8:11:24 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 E54C937B619 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:11:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgarman@got.wedgie.org) Received: by got.wedgie.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3E329D905; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:11:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:11:13 -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: <20000329111113.A14294@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> <20000328223420.C10913@got.wedgie.org> <38E184BE.2A1EC450@esec.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <38E184BE.2A1EC450@esec.com.au>; from Tim Liddelow on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:21:18PM +1000 X-Phase-Of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (35% of Full) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:21:18PM +1000, Tim Liddelow wrote: > > Well the motherboard is a FIC PA-2011 IIRC - I am running -current, but the > driver is the same AFAIK. I have put the sysctl in and am waiting to see if > the problems recur. Changing h/w seems a little heavy handed - I am not > in the positition to do that right now - I'd like to see if there is a perhaps a > software solution to this first. Do we know for sure it is the hardware ? Does > Linux have problems on the same hardware ? If I knew more about the driver > I'd do some hacking, but I don't right now. > Yes. Same symptoms under Linux, in fact much worse. Checksums of recently ftp'ed files would routinely mismatch the original, and other such bogons. System was reasonably stable with DMA turned off. I suppose everyone has a bad experience with hardware that taints their future views, and this is mine :) I know that avoiding a VIA chipset was a very conscious decision when i rushed out and purchased a replacement motherboard. 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