From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 29 13:17: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from got.wedgie.org (got.wedgie.org [216.181.169.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C751937B71D for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgarman@got.wedgie.org) Received: by got.wedgie.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A7199D905; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:16:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:16:49 -0500 From: Jason Garman To: hometeam Cc: Gawel , Eric Jacoboni , Grigoriy Strokin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New kernel with its ATA drivers damages the filesystem Message-ID: <20000329161649.A15367@got.wedgie.org> Reply-To: jgarman@wedgie.org References: <38E1D32B.F946EEB8@sim.com.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from hometeam on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:53:38AM -0500 X-Phase-Of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (33% of Full) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:53:38AM -0500, hometeam wrote: > > I agree this really should be fix ...I notcied this straight away and sent > mail to the group...Now it is damaging file Systems after the fact and > wiping out file systems... I mean change the > hardware ??? Why not fix the driver ? > Because in my experience at least it is a hardware problem, not unlike the old cmd640 and rz1000 bugs. Granted there should be an easy way to disable dma in the kernel config (so that you can disable it early on, before bootup and also during installation) enjoy -- Jason Garman http://web.wedgie.org/ Student, University of Maryland jgarman@wedgie.org From fortune(1): Whois: JAG145 "... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message