Re: file corruption in 2.4.16/17

Christian Ohm (chr.ohm@gmx.net)
Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:04:50 +0100


> none of that is meaningful (genuine companies ship invalid cables,
> and the 20 could easily have had a lower max udma mode, etc.)

hmmm, i'll try a new one after christmas... the bios showed them both as
'udma 66'.

> are they both on the same channel? also, when you boot, do you see
> a message about the "athlon bug stomper"? (which actually corrects
> a bogus kt133/etal hostbridge setting.)

they are on the same channel. and i've never seen a message like this.

> I can't imagine any reason to use the preemption patch, since it
> completely corrupts all atomicity guarantees that the kernel has
> been codd on. there definitely is no problem with large disks and
> via (and 80G is certainly not a large disk any more.)

well, plain 2.4.17 corrupted files, too.

bye
christian ohm
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