Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:38:45 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Kastus Shchuka <> | Subject | Re: massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10? |
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Just a short question to all people who exrerienced corruption: What kind of RAM do you use? Is it ECC/parity or no? This looks like the clue to the problem.
-------------------------------------------- Kastus Shchuka <pike@usis.minsk.by> LAN Manager/SysAdmin ph.: +375-17-217-0481 USIS Minsk fax: +375-17-217-8828
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Adrian Baugh wrote:
> Another data-point for you. I have a dual P2/300 (Gigabyte motherboard > with an on-board Adaptec aic7895 SCSI adaptor) and an IBM 4.5GB SCSI hard > drive, model DDRS-34560W. Also is a very old Quantum TRB850A 850MB IDE > hard drive (it doesn't use DMA). I tried Larry's lmdd using 650MB, 100MB > and 75MB file sizes, both random access and the normal checking mode, > doing several operations simultaneously, on different partitions, disks > etc - everything I could think of. I didn't see any corruption. > This is with 2.2.10 SMP compiled on pgcc-2.91.66 (based on the egcs-1.1.2 > release). I applied the following patch to drivers/scsi/sd.c (someone on > here mentioned it a while back): > > --- drivers/scsi/sd.c.orig Fri Jun 18 00:52:10 1999 > +++ drivers/scsi/sd.c Fri Jun 18 00:52:39 1999 > @@ -1050,6 +1050,7 @@ > > SCpnt->transfersize = rscsi_disks[dev].sector_size; > SCpnt->underflow = this_count << 9; > + SCpnt->cmd_len = 0; > scsi_do_cmd (SCpnt, (void *) cmd, buff, > this_count * rscsi_disks[dev].sector_size, > rw_intr, > > More information on request. > Please cc: me as I'm not on the list after the end of term (tomorrow). > > Adrian Baugh. > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me > spread! > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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