Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750783AbVJCFF7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 01:05:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750817AbVJCFF6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 01:05:58 -0400 Received: from smtpout1.uol.com.br ([200.221.4.192]:30594 "EHLO smtp.uol.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750783AbVJCFF5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 01:05:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 02:05:55 -0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito To: Alan Cox Cc: vherva@vianova.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13 Message-ID: <20051003050555.GC5576@ime.usp.br> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , vherva@vianova.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050927111038.GA22172@ime.usp.br> <20050928084330.GC24760@viasys.com> <1127949809.26686.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050929062937.GY24719@viasys.com> <1128010484.5774.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1128010484.5774.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1905 Lines: 44 On Sep 29 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > Some fixes went in early 2.4 and they got refined later on. See the > function quirk_vialatency). There is a brief summary at the first URL > listed still. Essentially the chip has a flaw where it can lose a > transfer. > > If people see this behaviour on a KT133 can you please check the quirk > is being run and displaying > > printk(KERN_INFO "Applying VIA southbridge workaround.\n"); Just as an information, I get the following messages on my system: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - rbrito@dumont:~$ dmesg | grep -i via Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09 PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7 VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:04.1 Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. rbrito@dumont:~$ dmesg | grep -i memor Memory: 775776k/786352k available (1847k kernel code, 10076k reserved, 733k data, 148k init, 0k highmem) Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed rbrito@dumont:~$ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Is this what is supposed to appear when one is using a 2.6.1x kernel? Thanks for any hints, Rog?rio Brito. -- Rog?rio Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ - 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/