Re: [2.3.99pre2] [CORRUPTION] Doh! Corruption prob s

From: Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 15:50:07 EST


On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:44:01PM -0500, Mike Porter wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> > Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> said:
> > > Well, I have noticed throughout this thread that the people noticing the
> > > corruption are all using Intel PIIX4 chipsets (myself included). I may have
> > > missed something, but it's an observation.
> >
> > I had to disable IDE Auto DMA in the kernel configuration on my PC so the
> > filesystems didn't get hosed each time I used 2.3.x. Also PIIX4.
>
> Has anyone, anywhere, used UDMA (actually any IDE DMA) on a
> motherboard with a PIIX4?

On 2.2.14, I have DMA enabled, and no problems.

PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 29
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfe60-0xfe67, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfe68-0xfe6f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1802D, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, 6194MB w/420kB Cache, CHS=789/255/63, UDMA
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache

Ben

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