Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 05:05:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 05:05:08 -0500 Received: from [62.245.135.174] ([62.245.135.174]:55947 "EHLO mail.teraport.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 05:04:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3C985EBF.D53B43A2@TeraPort.de> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:04:47 +0100 From: Martin Knoblauch Reply-To: m.knoblauch@TeraPort.de Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre2-ac2-mkn i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Andre Hedrick , Ken Brownfield , m.knoblauch@TeraPort.de, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Filesystem Corruption (ext2) on Tyan S2462, 2xAMD1900MP, 2.4.17SMP In-Reply-To: X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/20/2002 11:04:47 AM, Serialize by Router on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/20/2002 11:04:58 AM, Serialize complete at 03/20/2002 11:04:58 AM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > I am in their lab trying to reproduce the error and I have found some docs > > which could help address the error of the 4byte FIFO issue in the engine. > > It looks fixable on paper. > > Andre - if you want the info I have from the previous stuff I was involved > in I can strip out customer company info and send it on. > > > As for the AMD driver, who knows which version is in that kernel. > > 2.4.18 has a very old one > 2.4.18-ac has the Andre/AMD updated one, but not the further updates. > (eg it turns off SWDMA on more chipsets than it needs to) > it is actually possible that the AMD driver is not enabled on the kernel from our integrator. Could this give problems when someone enables DMA on the IDE devices? I am still wondering why we did not see it on the eight other boxes with the same setup. Maybe just luck? Thanks Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759 - 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/