Re: System crashes with via82cxxx ide driver

Tim Moore (timothymoore@bigfoot.com)
Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:45:34 -0700

> How do I know that this is because of the via82cxxx driver? Well, it
> always happens with 2.4.x and this driver enabled. It never happens to me
> with 2.2.19, which has an older driver for this kind of ide controller.
> But when I apply the ide backport patch to 2.2.19, giving me the via82cxxx
> driver on 2.2.19, the machine once again crashes at the same 75.6% of the
> e2fsck run. When I disable the driver in the kernel config, e2fsck does
> not crash the machine. So it's not the newer IDE stuff in general, but
> specifically this driver.

FWIW no problems with this setup:

2.2.20p9, ide.2.2.19.05042001.patch.bz2, e2fsck v1.19.

[tim@abit 2.2]# e2fsck -f -p /dev/hdc4 -C 0
/dev/hdc4: 30/1411488 files (16.7% non-contiguous), 1754402/2819407
blocks

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0391 (rev
02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8391
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev
22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev
10)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 30)
00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 OHCI Compliant
IEEE-1394 Controller
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24
[CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev
20)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TNT2 Model 64
(rev 11)

rgds,
tim

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