Subject: Re: IDE locking (was: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
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On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 01:44, CaT wrote:
> > Depends on your PCI bus and also if the are on the same IRQ. In the same
> Hmm. How can I check on this? What should I look for?

If you've got two promise cards on a VIA 133Mhz or early 266Mhz chipset
for example then there are large numbers of reports both Linux and other
OS about problems.

> The problems were weird. The fs I was copying from decided it was
> corrupt. Unmounting the partition and trying an fsck reported that it
> couldn't find the partition. After a reboot all was well and a fsck
> reported no problems.

That indicates the corruption was in memory not on disk. I take it the
box passes memtest86 fine however ?
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