Re: Filesystem Corruption (ext2) on Tyan S2462, 2xAMD1900MP, 2.4.17SMP (RH7.2)

[Alan Cox]

> It would have been "fine" if the serverworks driver didn't leave UDMA on
> when it's off by default in the CONFIG.  At least then you would be

That was a merge error from way back - now fixed (2.4.19pre) 

> Quite possible.  I'm only seeing this on ServerWorks mobos with IDE as
> primary (vs SCSI).  I heard third-hand via a FreeBSD post that it's an
> OSB4 issue effecting them as well.  Are Seagates a requirement for the
> issues?

I wish I knew. If I did I'd slap a "no seagate UDMA" check in that driver
pronto.

> As to whether they can reproduce it... I'm not holding my breath for
> them to try.

They tried. They asked a lot of questions and while they failed I'm certain
the actually did try. While we've had some problems with serverworks
(notably no ECC docs which for some enterprise customers is a showstopper)
in general they are very co-operative nowdays, although they do like NDA's
and the like first.

Alan