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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:36:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem Corruption (ext2) on Tyan S2462, 2xAMD1900MP, 2.4.17SMP
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I am in their lab trying to reproduce the error and I have found some docs
> > which could help address the error of the 4byte FIFO issue in the engine.
> > It looks fixable on paper.
> 
> Andre - if you want the info I have from the previous stuff I was involved
> in I can strip out customer company info and send it on.
> 
> > As for the AMD driver, who knows which version is in that kernel.
> 
> 2.4.18 has a very old one
> 2.4.18-ac has the Andre/AMD updated one, but not the further updates.
> 		(eg it turns off SWDMA on more chipsets than it needs to)
> 

Why, SWDMA is obsoleted and there should not be any modern drives
reporting the support.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group