I've been having problems with major filesystem corruption on kernels 2.4.19, 2.4.20, and 2.4.21. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the driver for the PCI expansion IDE controller the drives are on, and I've reported this problem to the manufacturer (Promise Technology Inc, www.promise.com), but I haven't really gotten any help from them. I've been considering sending this to the kernel mailing list, but I'm a little in awe of all the hardcore coders there, so I figured I'd see if I could get any help here first.
The drive is being controlled by a PCI expansion Ultra133 TX2 card
(PDC20269 chipset). It uses
the pdc202xx driver, with patches for 2.4.18 & 2.4.19; 2.4.20 & 2.4.21
don't need the patch. The
patches were available on www.promise.com, but for some reason they've
been taken off. My
problem is, on 2.4.19+patch, 2.4.20, and 2.4.21, after compiling the
kernel and rebooting, the first
time the filesystem is mounted, it works fine. But after that, the
filesystem becomes corrupted. It
does this on ext2, ext3, and reiserfs. My fat32 partitions (on a
seperate drive, also on the expansion
IDE controller) don't exhibit any symptoms at all. I have attached the
config & dmesg files for 2.4.18
(has no problems) and 2.4.21 (major filesystem corruption after first
mount). Below is a diagram of
my system configuration.
Mainboard: MSI KT3 Ultra (MS-6380E)
Mainboard chipset: VIA KT333 & VIA VT8233A
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.667 GHz)
Memory: 768 MB PC2100 DDR RAM
Onboard IDE:
Pri Master: LITE-ON LTR-40125S 40x12x48 CD-RW
Pri Slave: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502
Sec Master: Imation LS-120 Superdisk UHD Floppy
Sec Slave: Unused
Ultra133TX2 PDC20269 BIOS Version 2.20.0.15
Pri Master: MAXTOR 6L060J3 LBA 57259MB UDMA6
hda1: fat32 windows c:
hda2: fat32 windows e:
hda3: fat32 windows e:
hda4: fat32 windows f:
Pri Slave: Unused
Sec Master: Western Digital WDC WD205AA-00BAA0 LBA 19569MB UDMA4
hdc1: ext3
hdc2: swap
Sec Slave: Unused
Any help resolving this would be appreciated,
Conway S. Smith
config-2.4.18
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config-2.4.21
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dmesg-2.4.18
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dmesg-2.4.21
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