Re: Drvie Corruption CONSTANTLY with Linux and KT7-RAID

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:34:53 +0000

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:20:24AM -0800, Peter DeVries wrote:
> Please help.. I'm at the end of my rope with this now.
> I have rebuilt this system and corupted my drive at
> least 30 times now. I have a ABIT KT7-RAID and no
> matter what I do with any kernel 2.2.16 - 2.4.2-ac19
> as soon as I turn on DMA mode the drive starts to
> corrupt and becomes useless. The corruption happens
> alot faster in 2.4xxx than the 2.2.xxx kernels.

Do you notice any programs getting SEGVs? If they do, it could be bad
RAM.

Personally, when I come across a machine which behaves oddly, the first
thing I'd try is checking the memory. You can get a copy of memtest86
for doing this.

--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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