On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 07:33:21PM -0500, safemode wrote:
> I'm sorry I can't be more descriptive than that, but there aren't any
> errors ever displayed.  What happened was after about a day of uptime, I
> began seeing IO errors when trying to access files.  I realized that the
> IO errors occurred on any file I had created.  I rebooted since the
> computer became impossible to use and fsck removed everything that I had
> created since upgrading to the release kernel.  This is all on ext2fs.
> I tried making bootdisks but they all showed up as being bad.  I tried
> copying files to another ext2fs but upon fsck, they too were all removed
> due to corruption.  These ext2fs' were not created by the release
> kernel.  I had to go back to 2.4.0-test11 before the kernel would write
> to the fs correctly.  For the record, I disabled DMA in the kernel and
> i'm compiling for athlon using gcc 2.95.3.  I saw the same thing happen
> though when I booted for a kernel compiled for Pentium 2.    Since
> reverting back to 2.4.0-test11, however, no FS corruption has been
> observed.  Anyone have any idea what this is about?  i'm compiling with
> the same options between kernels but 2.4.x (release and newer) do not
> seem to be able to write to the ext2fs correctly.  Could this be because
> it was formatted by a 2.2.x kernel?   Anyone using this chipset I would
> caution to have backups ready when using it with 2.4.x, as I lost
> hundreds of files to it.  Also, no errors were reported anywhere,  IO
> errors when trying to stat dirs just started appearing after a couple
> days uptime ...then they would occur whenever you wrote to the FS.  Even
> after a reboot.    If you need any extra iinfo about kernel options and
> computer config, just ask.
> 

I think I'm suffering the same thing on my new Asus A7V. Yesterday I got a
single "error in bitmap, remounting read only" type error, and today I got
some files in /tmp that returned I/O error when stat()ed. I do have DMA
enabled, but only UDMA33. I've done several kernel compiles with no
problems at all so looks like something is on the edge. Think I might go
back to 2.2.x for a bit and see what happens, or maybe just remove the VIA
driver :-((.

P.

I've attached lspci -vxxx output, and kernel config, in case anyone is
investigating.

/dev/hda is Seagate ST330621A.

----------VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration----------------
Driver Version:                     2.1e
South Bridge:                       VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22
Command register:                   0x7
Latency timer:                      32
PCI clock:                          33MHz
Master Read  Cycle IRDY:            0ws
Master Write Cycle IRDY:            0ws
FIFO Output Data 1/2 Clock Advance: off
BM IDE Status Register Read Retry:  on
Max DRDY Pulse Width:               No limit
-----------------------Primary IDE-------Secondary IDE------
Read DMA FIFO flush:           on                  on
End Sect. FIFO flush:          on                  on
Prefetch Buffer:               on                  on
Post Write Buffer:             on                  on
FIFO size:                      8                   8
Threshold Prim.:              1/2                 1/2
Bytes Per Sector:             512                 512
Both channels togth:          yes                 yes
-------------------drive0----drive1----drive2----drive3-----
BMDMA enabled:        yes        no        no        no
Transfer Mode:       UDMA   DMA/PIO   DMA/PIO   DMA/PIO
Address Setup:       30ns     120ns      30ns     120ns
Active Pulse:        90ns     330ns      90ns     330ns
Recovery Time:       30ns     270ns      30ns     270ns
Cycle Time:          60ns     600ns     120ns     600ns
Transfer Rate:   33.0MB/s   3.3MB/s  16.5MB/s   3.3MB/s