Good Morning Vojtech!
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Terrence Martin wrote:
> I am having all sorts of nasty file corruption problems with 2.2.18
> patched with
> ide.2.2.18.1221.patch.gz
> linux-2.2.18-reiserfs-3.5.29-patch.gz
> raid-2.2.18-B0
>
> The corruption is occuring on my WDC AC28400R(I also had a problem with
> a 13GB WDC as well which I swapped out last night). This is the only
> hard drive that is on the onboard controller which is a VIA Technologies
> VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6) chipset. The drive does share the IDE bus
> with a internal ATAPI Zip drive. The cable I am using to connect the WDC
> is a UDMA66 40pin 80 wire cable. I realize I do not have a UDMA66
> controller, or disk, but I was having problems installing with a
> standard 40 pin, 40 wire cable that the 80 wire seemed to alleviate.
>
> The other drives are my software RAID setup on 2 Promise PDC20262
> controllers with 1 drive per interface for a total of 4 drives. These
> drives are Quantum 13X(?) 13GB drives. I am running the default RH6.2
> kernel right now for stability with no support for my promise
> controllers and I am writing this from a remote site so not sure of
> other distinguishing marks of the quantum HD's.
>
> So my question is does anyone have any idea what might cause ide dma
> errors to occur when I use this kernel? As I mentioned file corruption
> seems to only occur on the WDC drive(s) and manisfest itself as
> executables suddenly becoming unreadable binary files, strange file
> permissions on new files, and X windows going completely nuts when it
> tries to start. I reboot back to the stock 2.2.14 with RH and everything
> seems to work fine, excepting that I cannot access my RAID device of
> course. :)
>
> I have had this problem across two mother boards(both VIA chipsets), two
> CPU's, two WDC Hard drives and the cable swap. I have not swapped RAM.
>
> Thanks for any assistance/suggestions that you might be able to render.
>
> Regards
> Terrence Martin
>
> P.S. More specific system information follows
>
> hdparm /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> multcount = 0 (off)
> I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> using_dma = 0 (off)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> nowerr = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 8 (on)
> geometry = 16383/16/63, sectors = 16514064, start = 0
>
> hdparm -i /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>
> Model=WDC AC28400R, FwRev=15.01J55, SerialNo=WD-WM6280172815
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs
> FmtGapReq }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
> BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
>
> DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=16514064
> tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:160,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
> UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2
>
> cat /proc/pci
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C597 Apollo VP3 (rev 4).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
> Latency=16.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000008].
> Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
> PCI bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3 AGP (rev 0).
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 71).
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
> IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
> Latency=64.
> I/O at 0xb400 [0xb401].
> Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device
> (rev 1).
> Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d38.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64.
> I/O at 0xb800 [0xb801].
> I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbc01].
> I/O at 0xc000 [0xc001].
> I/O at 0xc400 [0xc401].
> I/O at 0xc800 [0xc801].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xea000000].
> Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device
> (rev 1).
> Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d38.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64.
> I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc01].
> I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
> I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
> I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
> I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea020000 [0xea020000].
> Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 36).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min
> Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
> I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea040000 [0xea040000].
> Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: NVidia/SGS Thomson Riva 128 (rev 16).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 5. Master
> Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 [0xe6000008].
>
>
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