Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:42:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:42:48 -0500 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:19589 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:42:18 -0500 Subject: Re: problem with pcmcia, pci and hard disk From: Alan Cox To: Mauro Chiarugi Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030319174705.37994a18.maurochiarugi@tiscali.it> References: <20030319173523.745fb4a9.maurochiarugi@tiscali.it> <20030319174705.37994a18.maurochiarugi@tiscali.it> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1048097045.30751.64.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-4) Date: 19 Mar 2003 18:04:06 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 16:47, Mauro Chiarugi wrote: > I forgot to explain why in the subject i've written hard disk too.. > When, at the boot, every 27 times, it check the file system, some times > (or every time, i don't sure..) it fails... :-( I use ext3. It should never be failing, on 2.4.18 or 2.5.x with ext3. You should get log playbacks on a crash and maybe an fsck every 27 if you set the checking to run that way. My first guess is you have something corrupting data - bad memory, bad disk, overclocking or of course a software bug that you happen to hit and nobody else seems to. What drivers are you running - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/