Re: IDE, util-linux

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

What patches should I use?
Where are they?

> Don't run vanilla 2.5.25, it has only IDE-93...
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > Yesterday util-linux 2.11t was released.
> > As always, comments are welcome.
> >
> > Wanted to continue some usb-storage work on 2.5 and
> > recklessly booted 2.5.25. It survived for several hours,
> > then deadlocked. Two filesystems turned out to be corrupted.
> > Wouldn't mind if the rock solid 2.4 handling of HPT366
> > was carefully copied to 2.5, that today quickly causes
> > corruption and quickly deadlocks or crashes.
> > [Yes, these are independent bugs. The fact that the current
> > IDE code writes to random disk sectors is much more annoying
> > than the fact that it crashes and deadlocks. This random
> > writing is observed only on disks on the HPT366 card.]
> >
> > Andries
>
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