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SubjectRe: Interesting fs corruption story
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM -0500, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On 06 Mar 2001 17:01:02 -0800, Tim Wright wrote:
[...]
> > The fix for me was to rebuild the kernel and make sure CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS
> > was enabled. So, do you ever use power management and is this similar, or do
> > you have a completely different problem ?
>
> Wow, this sounds like this might be the problem. I just checked my
> `.config' and indeed `CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS' is not enabled. And indeed
> I have been suspending/resuming the machine a few times before the
> partition got corrupted.
>
> So, does DMA work correctly on your system after setting this option?

Yes, it does. I have the drive running in UDMA mode 2, and get ~16MB/s from
'hdparm -t -T'. I have the "use DMA automatically" option turned on in the
kernel, so I inherit the BIOS settings which are correct.

I've used standby and hibernation with complete success since.

Regards,

Tim

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