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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:11:27 -0400
From:      Keith Mitchell <kmitch@weenix.guru.org>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fs corruption (ATA / 4.4-REL)
Message-ID:  <20011001141127.A4415@weenix.guru.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0110011207240.7665-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:11:50PM -0500
References:  <20010929080038.A16272@weenix.guru.org> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0110011207240.7665-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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> The VIA chipset is probably your culprit, though I'm not exactly sure
> if the MVP3 has the PCI bus corruption problem or if it is only the
> later KT133/KT266 chipsets.  If so, your motherboard vendor is
> supposed to fix the PCI bus corruption problems in the BIOS, so try a
> BIOS update.  If that doesn't fix it, you'll have to install
> 4.4-STABLE, since Soren just recently put a fix into the ata driver to
> work around a problem with those chipsets that the motherboard vendors
> should be fixing but aren't.

That only affects DMA, right?  I'm going to try and install with

hw.ata.wc=0
hw.ata.ata_dma=0
hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

And see if that works.  I don't see any of the IDMA errors that other
people are reporting (maybe because I'm only uses UDMA33 and not
UDMA66/100).  All I see is data and/or filesystem corruption.  Sometimes
the fs gets blaster beyond repair, other times I see files get merged
together, etc.  A pain in the butt.

-- 
Keith Mitchell
Email: kmitch@guru.org				PGP key available upon request

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