Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:22:22 -0800 | From | Tim Wright <> | Subject | Re: Interesting fs corruption story |
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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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