From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:44:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:44:51 -0500 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:40857 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:44:50 -0500 Subject: Re: UDMA causes IDE corruption on Shuttle AK32L mobo (VIA KT266A), kernel 2.4.1[89] From: Alan Cox To: Jim Halfpenny Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1038600903.2074.2.camel@fox> References: <1038600903.2074.2.camel@fox> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 29 Nov 2002 21:24:38 +0000 Message-Id: <1038605078.14232.9.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 20:15, Jim Halfpenny wrote: > I have seen the behaviour using the stock 2.4.18 kernel from Mandrake > 8.2. and the 2.4.19 kernel from Mandrake 9.0: > Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk (quintela@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version > 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002 Vendor kernel reports generally ahould go to the vendor, because the vendor kernels are often quite different from the base one. > There are no log entries in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog when > these faulty writes take place to indicate that there are any problems > but copying a large file and checking it's md5sum shows it to be > damaged. UDMA data transfers are verified by hardware end to end. UDMA showing up memory problems is not unknown, but thats only one possibility.