Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

[Martin Laberge]

Alan Cox wrote:

> > This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller:
> > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06)
>
> There are several people who have reported that the 2.4.0 VIA IDE driver
> trashes hard disks like that. The 2.2 one also did this sometimes but only
> with specific chipset versions and if you have dma autotune on (thats why
> currently 2.2 refuses to do tuning on VP3)
>
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I had exactly the same problem with my K6-350 and IDE VT82C586a
on a kernet 2.2.16    ..... i just made a hdparm to enable DMA and pooffff....
lost all data .... reinstall necessary from scratch

Martin Laberge
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