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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:11:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Mike Ricketts <rickettm@ox.compsoc.net>
cc: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11
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I have seen ext2 filesystem corruption both on SCSI and IDE drives.

Tigran

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Mike Ricketts wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> 
> > So I'm asking the same question, to all those who have seen unexplained
> > filesystem corruption with 2.4.0: are you using IDE drives? If the answer
> > is yes, can you check the logs and see if, at *any* point before the
> > corruption occurred, the IDE driver choked and disabled DMA for *any* of
> > your disks?
> 
> I have both IDE and SCSI drives in my machine, but have only seen
> corruption on the SCSI drives.  That doesn't mean that the problem only
> exists on the SCSI drives - they IDE ones are not frequently written to.
> I have disabled DMA myself on all my IDE drives because if I enable it,
> the IDE driver always chokes the first time they are anything like
> hammered (well, it always used to - I haven't actually tried it recently).
> 
> 

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