From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:11:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:11:21 -0400 Received: from mx3.port.ru ([194.67.57.13]:42758 "EHLO mx3.port.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:11:07 -0400 From: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> To: hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Howl of soul... Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 X-Originating-IP: [195.34.27.212] Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 20:11:23 +0000 (GMT) Reply-To: "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > Does anyone know what this bug actually is, and > > whether there's a possible > > > workaround without disabling udma entirely? > > so if i will disable udma and switch to > > -X34 == multiword dma2, then corruptions will go away???? > > > > i have a VX chipset/Zida 5DVX with PIIX3... > > there's nothing wrong with the chipset/controller; isn't this thread > about the well-known DTLA problem? if so, then what mode you use > is completely irrelevant, since the physical media is degrading. i feel like the media isn`t downgrading because the badblocks _arent_ physical: low-level drive reformat doesnt show anything. how i think it may be related to chipset/controller? when data is transferred in udma mode, there may be checksumming errors, and the wrong crc is being wrote to the disk. so when data is being accessed, bah - you are in shit... although, this is only a theory... --- cheers, Samium Gromoff