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From: Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus@users.sourceforge.net>
To: maney@pobox.com, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Martin Maney <maney@two14.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-rc2 ext2 filesystem corruption
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 01:58:02 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <S271812AbTHMW6L/20030813225811Z+15085@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030813181330.GA1122@furrr.two14.net>

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:13:30 -0500 Martin Maney <maney@two14.net> wrote:

> At this point the outcome was pretty much a foregone conclusion, but
> yep, reverting to ".id" stopped the corruption for this test case.  As
> Alan said, it "fixed" it only because that incorrect test happens to
> force the driver to use the lower DMA speed.  I had been about to
> report on that when your request for the explicit test arrived, but in
> short it's that rc1 (and earlier) were disabling the "66" clock speed,
> while rc2 was, correctly, finding no reason not to enable it.  The real
> bug, be it hardware or software, is that enabling the higher speed
> causes the corruption.

Do you have the latest Promise BIOS? If not, does it still happen with
the latest one?

Regards,
Nerijus


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-13 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-12  3:58 2.4.22-rc2 ext2 filesystem corruption Martin Maney
2003-08-12 10:18 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-12 13:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-12 13:42   ` Martin Maney
2003-08-12 14:10     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-12 15:14       ` Martin Maney
2003-08-12 16:58         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-12 17:11           ` Alan Cox
2003-08-12 16:56       ` Martin Maney
2003-08-12 17:09         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-12 21:36           ` Martin Maney
2003-08-13 11:28             ` Alan Cox
2003-08-13 11:37               ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-13 14:55             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-13 18:13               ` Martin Maney
2003-08-13 19:40                 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-16  6:35                   ` Martin Maney
2003-08-17  0:09                     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-13 22:58                 ` Nerijus Baliunas [this message]
2003-08-12  6:20 Alex Davis

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