Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 07:04:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 07:04:20 -0500 Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.20]:52496 "EHLO tele-post-20.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 07:04:18 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 11:57:43 +0000 To: Tim Krieglstein Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Easy Way to FS-corruption Message-ID: <20010211115743.A981@colonel-panic.com> Mail-Followup-To: pdh, Tim Krieglstein , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tstone@t-online.de on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 03:24:06PM +0100 From: Peter Horton Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Tim Krieglstein wrote: > > I found a way which seems to lead to an "easy" way of fs-corruption: > Install two sound-cards, use the newest ALSA-Drivers 0.5.10b > (the standard sound drivers don't work to good with sf) and [snip] This could be that bus master DMA caching problem that showed up on my KT133 A7V (see previous threads re: 'VIA silent disk corruption'). You could try more conservative BIOS chipset settings (my problem went away with "normal" rather than "optimal" BIOS settings). In the end Asus released a BIOS update for the A7V that seems to have fixed it permanently. P. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/