Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:20:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:20:45 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-195-162-81.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.195.162.81]:11274 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:20:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:36:47 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: Skip Collins cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5 In-Reply-To: <3A2E51B0.76C65771@jhuapl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have not tested of checked the nature of the PCD20265 which is the onboard version. On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Skip Collins wrote: > After running 2.4.0-test11 for a while, my system would occasionally > hang during heavy disk activity resulting in a corrupt ext2 filesystem. > Fortunately, none of the damage has been irrecoverable. I checked > linux-kernel to see if anyone else was seeing the same thing. The recent > threads on corruption seemed to be consistent with the behavior I saw: > ide disk access light remains lit, system hangs, fsck finds bad inodes. > I think test12-pre5 was supposed to fix the problem. But after upgrading > my kernel, I can still get the errors. > > I have a 900MHz Athlon/Asus A7V mobo system with an onboard ata100 > promise controller. I have only had problems when my ata100/udma5 > harddrive is connected to the promise controller. Using the ATA66 ide > bus eliminates the problem. I typically see the corruption when copying > large (~1GB) files such as vmware virtual disks. It also happens > frequently inside vmware when doing heavy disk access things like > installing software or defragging a win2000 virtual disk. > > For now I am going to fall back to the slower ide bus. But I wanted to > let people know that there still may be problems with ext2 corruption in > the latest test kernel. > > sc > please cc any replies to me > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/