From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 10:39:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 10:39:29 -0400 Received: from web12801.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.36]:42765 "HELO web12801.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 10:39:17 -0400 Message-ID: <20010527143912.23667.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 00:39:12 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Cody=20Gould?= Reply-To: codygould@yahoo.com.au Subject: 2.4.5-ac1 hard disk corruption... acpi responsible? To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Debian, Intel 440BX2 Seattle, 2x Fujitsu UDMA33 IDE hard drives. In my bootscripts, hdparm enables DMA. I tried most all 2.4.0-acx up to 2.4.4-ac9, and then plain 2.4.5 today, over the past few months, with no corruption or instability. Today I moved to 2.4.5-ac1, the only different thing than normal was I enabled ACPI instead of APM. After 2 minutes in the fresh kernel on the console, I was make'ing an application, and the kernel gave some messages about reverting DMA mode, which I have never, ever seen before, followed by file I/O errors on lots of source files. I shutdown and rebooted, ext2fs detected my main disk as corrupt, and ran a check, spewing off screens and screens mentioning bad superblocks, incorrect times on inodes, and corrupt inodes within bad blocks [of which I have none]. I tar'd up what little I could salvage from my disk in single user mode where you run the fsck manually, when the kernel started giving messages about problems communicating with USB [I compile in the USB for Intel, and the HID, and have a Sidewinder joystick plugged in that I wasn't using]. The system was unuseable past that point, so I wiped clean and installed Win2K while I get my backups together. My hardware is fine, of course, everything is AOK now. The kernel had just gone crazy and mad. That's my experiences. Sorry it's long and I can't provide specific error messages, as I couldn't really do anything with my system in the state it was in. I hope that helps someone. Please CC me comments as I am not on the mailing list. Thank you. Cody Gould _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!