Re: 2.5.31 hda: lost interrupt

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
12 Aug 2002 16:50:56 +0100


On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 16:31, Irwan Hadi wrote:
> Well on my machine, with Maxtor DiamondMax 40 and Asus A7A255 ->
> AliMagic chipset, and with kernel 2.5.26 I was having the same problem
> too.
> It seems the problem might be because I was using ext3fs, which soon I
> found out corrupt the filesystem because of this lost interrupt thing.
> Or this problem might occur because my system is an AMD Athlon.

It happened because you ran 2.5. IDE on 2.5 is not stable (especially on
2.5.26)

> My solution was to move back to ext2fs and kernel 2.4.18, although for
> this I needed to fsck the hard drive a couple times because of the
> occured corruption to the filesystem.

ext3 is stable on 2.4 systems.

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