Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:18:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:18:00 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:8462 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:17:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:20:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Tomas Szepe cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ide-2.4.20-pre4-ac2.patch In-Reply-To: <20020828175957.GA15860@louise.pinerecords.com> 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 Content-Length: 1718 Lines: 44 WHOA Tomas, That is a major problem, are you using legacy patch or taskfile io? Ben H reported he was having problems with legacy path on PPC, but the new taskfile io worked fine. On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > This is out and has been forwarded to AC for review. > > Okay, I tested this the hard way -- the root of one of my machines > got trashed. The controller used was a PDC20268 (Ultra100TX2), the > disks (with two partitions of equal size on each forming a raid0) > are IBM and WD. Soon after the kernel came up, it started spitting > messages like 'DMA disabled' and 'No DRQ after WRITE has been issued', > after which the machine froze entirely. Rebooting w/ an alternate > kernel revealed massive fs corruption with the superblock completely > overwritten. > > *** Everybody please treat this patch with extreme care. *** > > Reiserfs people, this unfortunate event also made me find out about > the inability of reiserfsck 3.6.3-pre1 to rebuild the node tree -- > the program pretends to work just fine but the in-kernel fs code > barfs when it's to operate on a repaired fs. 3.x.1b was able to > get the job done for me, though. > > T. > - > 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/ > Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group - 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/