Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, summary

2001-01-23 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
Ok, folks, it's time for a summary. Since my last post, I've had time to experiment a bit more, and I've also had some private communication with Vojtech. First, I would like to say that you do need quite a bit of bad luck (or hardware) to have the same problems I did. Linux 2.4, VIA and IDE wo

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:59:57PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > I should also add that the 3.11 driver seems to make things better, but > not yet perfect. My intuition tells me that I get CRC errors much sooner > with 2.1e than with 3.11. > > Has the timings changed from 2.1e to 3.11, and

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
I should also add that the 3.11 driver seems to make things better, but not yet perfect. My intuition tells me that I get CRC errors much sooner with 2.1e than with 3.11. Has the timings changed from 2.1e to 3.11, and would it be easy to modify 3.11 to get extra safe/paranoid, but less high perf

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > So the drive *did* work on the vt82c686a in the A7V board? You tested it > > > both on the Promise and on the 686a? But doesn't work on the 686a in > > > your other board? > > > > Yes, on both the Promise and on the 686a. But the device revisions a

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:45:09AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > > > > I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at > > > home (Promise ATA100 an VIA

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > > I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at > > home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V > > motherboard), and there are no p

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at > home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V > motherboard), and there are no problems to be found with DMA enabled. > Streaming 10

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-13 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V motherboard), and there are no problems to be found with DMA enabled. Streaming 10 MB/s without glitches. However, writing to the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-13 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:12:27AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > > 2) What's in /proc/ide/via? > > > > It's not there since I disabled the VIA driver. > > Ok. Could you send me this file when you boot with fs r-o? Ok, but this is with the wrong d

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:12:27AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > Wow. Ok, I'm maintaining the 2.4.0 VIA driver, so I'd like to know more > > about this: > > > > 1) What's the ISA bridge revision? > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8501 (rev 02) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Techn

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-13 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Wow. Ok, I'm maintaining the 2.4.0 VIA driver, so I'd like to know more > about this: > > 1) What's the ISA bridge revision? 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8501 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8501 00:07.0 ISA bridg

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-12 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:23:21PM -0500, Martin Laberge wrote: > > > This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller: > > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) > > > > There are several people who have reported that the 2.4.0 VIA IDE driver

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-12 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:15:45AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > I've never seen anything like it before, which I'm happy for. The system > had been running a standard RedHat 7 kernel for days without any problems, > but who wants to run a 2.2 kernel? I compiled 2.4.0 for it, rebooted, and >

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Laberge
Alan Cox wrote: > > This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller: > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) > > There are several people who have reported that the 2.4.0 VIA IDE driver > trashes hard disks like that. The 2.2 one also did thi

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
> This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller: > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) There are several people who have reported that the 2.4.0 VIA IDE driver trashes hard disks like that. The 2.2 one also did this sometimes but only with