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From: Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net>
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: file corruption in 2.4.16/17
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> none of that is meaningful (genuine companies ship invalid cables,
> and the 20 could easily have had a lower max udma mode, etc.)

hmmm, i'll try a new one after christmas... the bios showed them both as
'udma 66'.

> are they both on the same channel?  also, when you boot, do you see
> a message about the "athlon bug stomper"?  (which actually corrects 
> a bogus kt133/etal hostbridge setting.)

they are on the same channel. and i've never seen a message like this.

> I can't imagine any reason to use the preemption patch, since it
> completely corrupts all atomicity guarantees that the kernel has 
> been codd on.  there definitely is no problem with large disks and 
> via (and 80G is certainly not a large disk any more.)

well, plain 2.4.17 corrupted files, too.

bye
christian ohm
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