Re: Fwd: File system corruption

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:55:03 +0100


On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:15:06PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:35, Paul wrote:
> > What I have found is that just after the start of a sector, usually 43 to 45
> > bytes, 6 bytes are skipped and the sequence starts again. This continues
> > until the next sector starts, where the sequence corrects. This appears to
> > happen every 65536 bytes or some multiple of 65536. It may skip three blocks
> > of 65536 and then corrupt on the next block of 65536 bytes.
>
> Ok that I'm afraid bears no resemblance to anything the software side
> does (we write in chunks but we do single PIO block transfers of each
> sector).

After examining the resulting image, Paul has a "clock" line to his
flash device that is a bit noisy. This occasionally causes one
16-bit entity to be clocked into the device twice.

To detect this going wrong, we could (but only as a configurable
option), write 255 16-bit words to the device (remember this is PIO!),
check that DRQ is still active and only then write the last word.
(at which point DRQ should go inactive).

Roger.

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