Re: PATCH, IDE corruption, 2.4.18

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:44:31PM +0100, Neil Conway wrote:
>  Also, does anyone understand why screwing up a DMA transfer results in
> the trashing of inodes?  Even better, how come this hasn't bitten many
> more people?  Surely there are lots of people out there with disks and
> CDs on the same IDE cable...
> 
> Neil
> (PS: I have reproduced the problem on two systems so far.)

That seems to be a seperate problem with the block layer and locked buffers
or pages (don't remember which).

I think a patch was submitted and integrated sometime in 2.4.19-pre.  Andrew
Morton would know more.

Mike