Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:48:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:48:19 -0500 Received: from adsl-209-76-109-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([209.76.109.63]:28800 "EHLO adsl-209-76-109-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:48:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:47:06 -0800 From: Wayne Whitney Message-Id: <200103311947.f2VJl6K02148@adsl-209-76-109-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> To: khk@khk.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE Disk Corruption with 2.4.3 / NOT with AC kernels In-Reply-To: <20010331084212.A11393@khk.net> In-Reply-To: <20010331084212.A11393@khk.net> Reply-To: whitney@math.berkeley.edu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: > I run into some major disk corruptions on my IDE disk with the new > 2.4.3 kernel version. [ . . . ] Now I did some more testing and found > out that the Alan Cox series of kernel patches does not show these > problems. Hmm, 2.4.2-ac28 and 2.4.3 have the same collection of VIA fixups in arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c. Something else must be causing this? > I was using the same .config file for all tests to make sure that the > problem was not caused by a kernel configuration issue. Did you run the .config through a 'make oldconfig' on each kernel, to catch CONFIG name changes and so forth? > This is my hardware: > - ABit KT7 board (KT133 chipset reported by lspci) Does the BIOS have a setting that sounds like "System performance setting" with choices such as "Optimal" or "Normal"? If so, try both settings. The terminology above is what is used on the ASUS A7V. >Here is the output of lspci: What would be quite useful, I think, is the output of 'lspci -xxx -s 0:0' under both the non-corrupting kernel (2.4.2-ac28) and the corrupting kernel (2.4.3). The output of 'dmesg' under both kernels would also be good. I find that a good way to present information like that, where most of it should be the same and one is looking for the differences, is via 'diff -u --unified=1000 a b'. Cheers, Wayne - 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/