Indeed, however what happened from what I could gather from digging around mail archives. Is that the default was safe, with the 2.4.18-3 kernel. However support was "added" by 2.4.18-10.athlon (the updated 7.3 kernel via up2date) which was incomplete, and caused data corruption.
There was a discussion of the way it was added in the Valhalla mailing list in July, which indicated it was added in an incomplete manner, and thus introduced the issue. Further, the beta 2.4.19 Red Hat kernels would also cause the data corruption, despite the fact that kernels built from 2.4.19 sources did not, because Red Hat had ported their changes to IDE in 2.4.18 to the 2.4.19 kernel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hayward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:58 PM Subject: Re: Has this Nasty Little Issue been fixed in 8.0 On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:13, D. Nathan Cookson wrote: > I apologize for forwarding this. I originally asked about this on the > valhalla list. However, after my recent update experiences with the 2.4.18-3 > to 2.4.18-10.athlon kernel with Red Hat 7.3, I was curious if this had been > addressed in Red Hat 8.0? If not, is there a timeline for addressing it? > > The motherboard has the Via KT8266A Chipset and 8233A Southbridge. I The 8233a southbridge was not supported in Red Hat 7.3. This is probably the casue of any data corruption. Looking at the source code for the 2.4.18-14 kernel in Psyche... /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/ide/via82cxxx.c * * Version 3.35 * * VIA IDE driver for Linux. Supported southbridges: * * vt82c576, vt82c586, vt82c586a, vt82c586b, vt82c596a, vt82c596b, * vt82c686, vt82c686a, vt82c686b, vt8231, vt8233, vt8233c, vt8233a, * vt8235 * The 8233a does now appear to be supported. Regards, Jim H
