Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263884AbTKAP4O (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:56:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263892AbTKAP4O (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:56:14 -0500 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:40721 "EHLO www.home.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263884AbTKAP4N (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:56:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:56:04 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Ville Herva , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ide write cache issue? [Re: Something corrupts raid5 disks slightly during reboot] Message-ID: <20031101155604.GB530@alpha.home.local> References: <20031031190829.GM4868@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <3FA30F4A.5030500@hundstad.net> <20031101082745.GF4640@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031101082745.GF4640@niksula.cs.hut.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 601 Lines: 16 Hi Ville, do you have the ability to reboot this beast on a DOS floppy equiped with a disk editor or even debug ? It would tell you wether it's the IDE initialization or shutdown which harms the disks. BTW, it may even be your bios which believes for an unknown reason that it has to write to the partition table which is not one. just my 2 cents, Willy - 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/