Re: Hard Drive corruption in 2.2.x

Trever Adams (trever_Adams@bigfoot.com)
Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:04:45 -0600


> > I have an EPOX MPV3 motherboard, I have not seen this corruption in
> > later 2.2.x kernels. There is something I have to say that might help
> > answer some of the problems.
> >
> > I do not know if the patch that changed drive geometry that people were
> > still having is present or not. I had a spare machine, not entirely
> > like this one, different hard drive, basically the same motherboard and
> ^^^^^^^^^ Does not quite make the
> grade in this kind of test due to the serious nature of the subject
> matter. A BIOS revision or chipset step revision is a major variation.
>
> IMHO only FIC, Tyan, and one other vender makes a MVP3 board that is Linux
> tested and stable with UDMA...........all others are wanta bees..........
>
> Andre Hedrick
> The Linux IDE guy

I don't use UDMA. I probably would like to, but last I heard the UDMA
drivers for the chipset were beta. Besides that is not part of the
point.

The machine didn't change between corruption and noncorruption. What
changed was I reformatted the hard drive using the newer linux and it
went away. It seems there are still some bugs in that new translation
stuff that went it. I don't know if they have been fixed or not. I was
just saying they had caused me similar corruption and messages to some
shown here. AGAIN THIS WAS ON THE SAME BOX. This one I am on now, the
similar one, never had the corruption or messages.

Trever

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