Re: New IDE code and DMA failures

Ted Deppner (ted@psyber.com)
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:02:30 -0700

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:27:29PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> What your /dev/hdg is? Using slave-alone on the A7V's Promise (and maybe
> on other motherboards too) will corrupt your disk badly. Under Linux,
> and also under Windows98. I did not tried other OSes...

I did not have a /dev/hdg. I searched and found your emails to
linux-kernel regarding your findings on quirks with the PDC20265
controller and moved /dev/hdh to /dev/hdg

I've not had a single DMA error since, regardless of how much I've tried
to break things. Previously I was able to fail things within a few
minutes.

Thank you!

At this point I am racking these issues against hardware quirks of my
A7V's onboard controller... I cannot say that there is anything amiss in
the kernel (or with reiserfs) in the light these findings.

-- 
Ted Deppner
http://www.psyber.com/~ted/
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