From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:01:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:01:03 -0400 Received: from natpost.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.65]:9121 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:00:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8285A9.8030306@korseby.net> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:00:41 +0200 From: Kristian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010808 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: cwidmer@iiic.ethz.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: massive filesystem corruption with 2.4.9 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > Typically this indicates disk, memory or chipset problems. If your disk is > in UDMA33/66 mode you can pretty rule the disk out as the data is > protected > > If you have a VIA chipset, especially if there is an SB Live! in the machine > then that may be the cause (fixes in 2.4.8-ac, should be a fix in 2.4.9 but > Linus tree also applies another bogus change but which should be harmless) No. I can't find any VIA chipset. I'm really surprised. :-) But it is an original Compaq-Board (EP-Series..) with a horroble BIOS. It seems that they're using intel only.. I did a probe of my harddisk with IBM's Drive Fitness program. It detected no errors. Here's the output of it: Model : IBM-DTLA-305040 Serial no. : YJ025714 Capacity : 41.17 GB Cache size : 380 KB Microcode level : TW4OA60A ATA Compliance : ATA-5 Ultra DMA Highest mode : 5 Active mode : 1 Settings Write cache : Enabled Read look-ahead : Enabled Auto reassign : Enabled S.M.A.R.T. operations : Enabled S.M.A.R.T. status : Good ABLE : Disabled AAM : Disabled Security feature : Supported Password : Not Set Here is the output of cat /proc/pci: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=64. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x44000000 [0x47ffffff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=140. Bus 0, device 14, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 5). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x48100000 [0x48100fff]. I/O at 0x1000 [0x101f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x48000000 [0x480fffff]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 6). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0x1080 [0x10bf]. Bus 0, device 16, function 0: Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 17). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=40. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x48200000 [0x48200fff]. Bus 0, device 16, function 1: Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 17). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x48300000 [0x48300fff]. Bus 0, device 20, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2). Bus 0, device 20, function 1: IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1). Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0x1040 [0x104f]. Bus 0, device 20, function 2: USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0x1020 [0x103f]. Bus 0, device 20, function 3: Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2). IRQ 9. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 130). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x42000000 [0x43ffffff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40800000 [0x40803fff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x407fffff]. /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 597.413 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1192.75 /proc/interrupts: 0: 1337585 XT-PIC timer 1: 46916 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 11: 162990 XT-PIC es1371, bttv, eth0 12: 294331 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 21839 XT-PIC ide0 15: 17 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 Kristian ЗЗ З З reach me :: З ЗЗ ЗЗ З З ЗЗ З ЗЗ З ЗЗЗ З З :: http://www.korseby.net :: http://www.tomlab.de kristian@korseby.net ....::