Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-18 Thread Terrence Martin
Just to follow up, on Vojtech's advice I installed kernel 2.4.0 instead(I also moved to 7.0 RH to accomplish this) and everything seems to be working fine(I did not apply your new patches Vojtech, as yet they have not proved necessary). I have not done any exhaustive testing, however the failure r

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-18 Thread Ville Herva
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:45:13AM -0800, you [Andre Hedrick] claimed: > > > But it works on all ATA disks? Does it work for SCSI as well? > > The KIOBUFS version may, but not the taskfile version. Ok. > > I think it would be cool if you'd make it available (on linux-ide.org?), > > so that pe

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
> But it works on all ATA disks? Does it work for SCSI as well? The KIOBUFS version may, but not the taskfile version. > I think it would be cool if you'd make it available (on linux-ide.org?), > so that people install servers (and anybody who _cares_) could test their > hardware/driver combina

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-18 Thread Ville Herva
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:14:02PM -0800, you [Andre Hedrick] claimed: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Tim Fletcher wrote: > > > > Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely. > > > > I ment that if the partiton has no persient data on it then the test can > > be run (the te

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Tim Fletcher wrote: > > Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely. > > I ment that if the partiton has no persient data on it then the test can > be run (the test wipes all data on the partition out during the test, > right?) with no loss of d

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
> > > maybe but why? > > > > Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem? > > Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely. I ment that if the partiton has no persient data on it then the test can be run (the test wipes all data on the partitio

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Tim Fletcher wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? > > > > maybe but why? > > Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem? Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely. Andre Hedrick L

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
> > Hi! > > > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? > > maybe but why? Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem? -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U X [EMAIL PROTECTED]// \\ >Do

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Hi! > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? maybe but why? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:53:36AM -0700, Terrence Martin wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Ok, just for a test, before I finish the 2.2 version of the new VIA IDE > > driver, could you try with the 2.4.0 kernel if it fixes the behavior? > > > > Hmm ok I will give it a try...this

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Terrence Martin
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Hi! > > Ok, just for a test, before I finish the 2.2 version of the new VIA IDE > driver, could you try with the 2.4.0 kernel if it fixes the behavior? > Hmm ok I will give it a try...this will have to wait for a few hours as I am at work. btw, how easy is it to install 2

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? Vojtech On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:40:13AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > I may have a new test tool but it is completely destructive the content on > the drives. It walks the drives and fills every sector with a unique > pattern and then you ca

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
I may have a new test tool but it is completely destructive the content on the drives. It walks the drives and fills every sector with a unique pattern and then you can read it back and checksum the contents. It does destroy the content on the drive, this is no worse than a random "File System

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! Ok, just for a test, before I finish the 2.2 version of the new VIA IDE driver, could you try with the 2.4.0 kernel if it fixes the behavior? By the way, what motherboard is this? Andre: Thanks for sending this to me, this is the case I was looking for - true data corruption on 2.2 kernel.

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
Good Morning Vojtech! On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Terrence Martin wrote: > I am having all sorts of nasty file corruption problems with 2.2.18 > patched with > ide.2.2.18.1221.patch.gz > linux-2.2.18-reiserfs-3.5.29-patch.gz > raid-2.2.18-B0 > > The corruption is occuring on my WDC AC28400R(I also ha