Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:40:13 +0200 From: Boris Karnaukh <bk532@iname.com> To: Tim Liddelow <tim@esec.com.au> Cc: jgarman@wedgie.org, Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru>, Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New kernel with its ATA drivers damages the filesystem Message-ID: <38E4808D.C480B276@iname.com> References: <20000328195030.A30092@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <87ln33htuc.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> <20000328221322.A32478@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <38E15BB9.3E3D5AF9@esec.com.au> <20000328223420.C10913@got.wedgie.org> <38E184BE.2A1EC450@esec.com.au>
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Tim Liddelow wrote: > > Jason Garman wrote: > > > > > > Whats your motherboard? I just trashed an ASUS P2V (which also has a VIA > > chipset on it) -- same problems, under all OSes that used DMA on the > > drive. Unfortunate, really. Got a new Abit BE6 instead, works like a > > dream. Highly recommended. > > Well the motherboard is a FIC PA-2011 IIRC - I am running -current, but the > driver is the same AFAIK. I have put the sysctl in and am waiting to see if > the problems recur. Changing h/w seems a little heavy handed - I am not > in the positition to do that right now - I'd like to see if there is a perhaps a > software solution to this first. Do we know for sure it is the hardware ? Does > Linux have problems on the same hardware ? If I knew more about the driver > I'd do some hacking, but I don't right now. > > If this is a known problem, it should be put in a FAQ somewhere. Well, it's well known problem. But it's related to Fujitsu hard drives in DMA mode in case when these drives are used together with hardware from other manufacturers. -- <Signed> Boris Karnaukh (mailto:bk532@iname.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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