Quoting Svetoslav Slavtchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>>>> "svetoslav" == Svetoslav Slavtchev > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > writes: > > > > svetoslav> Hi, > > > > Hi > > to my knowledge, you can only got IDE corruption with taskfile > > when you are using it explicitely (i.e. programs that do funny > > things with ioctl on the ide device). With normal use, should > > be no problems. > > > > svetoslav> i'm tracking really strange file system corruption > > svetoslav> (both reiserfs & xfs) on soft-raid-5 and lvm > > svetoslav> using 4 ibm drives as masters on HPT374 > > > > I don't know if you already do, but try to run memtes to be sure that > > memory timings are ok, and run smartctl to be sure that disk are also > > ok. > > > > svetoslav> have i missed smth? when was it activated in the -mdk kernel ? > > svetoslav> any pointers for debugging the fs corruption? > > > > svetoslav> and about the corruption: > > svetoslav> rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.22.x.mdk.src.rpm > > svetoslav> for i in 1 2 3; do rpmbuild -ba kernel-2.4.spec;done > > svetoslav> would end on the 2nd or 3rd run with smth like: > > svetoslav> ...... > > svetoslav> linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2 obsolated header > > svetoslav> the archive seems brocken, you might want to try recoverring > it > > with .... > > svetoslav> ...... > > > > run md5sum before and after the failure. Yes, I know that it will be > > cached in memory, attached program should help to empty the memory of > your > > machine. Change the megs value until a value that will fit your > > machine (assumed less than 2GB of RAM). > > > > Later, Juan. > > > > the md5sums are changing all the time :( > > smartctl reports a single reallocated sector on one of the drives, the oders > are > OK, but i have to pull the system down for captive test (root is raid-5 over > the > 4 drives) > > do we have( can we have) smartmontools in the rescue-mode of MDK-9.2 CDs > any idea which rescue CD supports HPT374 (probably kernel-2.4.21 and newer) > and has smartmontools ? > > memtest is running the last 5 hours and not a single error.
Ok, memtest-3.0 two runs ~9 hours(22 runs) and ~8hours(18runs) no error is it important that the test is not interupted or this is enough to say that the memmory is OK? svetljo
