Re: Filesystem corruption with 2.0.32

Jeff Wiegley (jeff@w3-design.com)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 10:36:01 -0800


Could this also be the reason that my 440TX motherboard + K6-233
died the other night during heavy disk usage?

I was do a bunch of stuff and then the machine got quite unresponsive
and then it completely locked up (no ping, no nothing) except the
disk drive light was permanently on.

-Jeff "Mr. Back with 2.0.29"

Doug Ledford wrote:
>
> On 23-Nov-97 Jochen Heuer wrote:
> >Hello everybody,
> >
> >I'm experiencing some problems with filesystem corruption under
> >2.0.32 because I could not compile anything anymore. Having a
> >little look I found out that some files got *strange* permissions.
> >ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
> >hda: WDC AC21600H, 1549MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=787/64/63, DMA
> >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>
> Disable the Triton Bus Mastering DMA support in the kernel. We are getting
> sporadic reports of problems with this option enabled. The problems tend to
> go away with this option disabled.
>
> ----------------------------------
> E-Mail: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
> Date: 24-Nov-97
> Time: 11:21:50
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