On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor
> drives aren't quite safe with DMA.
Depends on the controller. Maxtor drives play badly with Highpoint
controllers, but are OK with Promise.
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> I also have an A7V and both of my IBM IDE drives are connected to the
> Promise controller, running in UDMA-5 mode. There hasn't been any
> corruption on either of the drives that had to do with UDMA-5 mode.
> And the ext2 bugs that 2.4 kernels had, h
I have not tested of checked the nature of the PCD20265 which is the
onboard version.
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Skip Collins wrote:
> After running 2.4.0-test11 for a while, my system would occasionally
> hang during heavy disk activity resulting in a corrupt ext2 filesystem.
> Fortunately, none of
"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote:
> What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor
> drives aren't quite safe with DMA.
Using an IBM 45GB udma5 capable drive. The problems only occur under
_heavy_ disk activity. I have -d 1 -c 3 -m 16 set.
Have you tried thrashing your drive f
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Skip Collins wrote:
> For now I am going to fall back to the slower ide bus. But I wanted to
> let people know that there still may be problems with ext2 corruption in
> the latest test kernel.
If your kernel halts, you should not be surprised if you get file system
errors. Y
Skip Collins wrote:
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> I have a 900MHz Athlon/Asus A7V mobo system with an onboard ata100
> promise controller. I have only had problems when my ata100/udma5
> harddrive is connected to the promise controller. Using the ATA66 ide
> bus eliminates the problem. I typically see the corruption when
I'd be more inclined to think its the combination of drive/controller
more than an ext2fs problem. If it was a fs corruption issue, you should
still see it on the slower bus.
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Skip Collins wrote:
> I have a 900MHz Athlon/Asus A7V mobo system with an onboard ata100
> promise con
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