> Date: Today 09:04:28 > > Greetings, all. > > I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series > for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to > work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. However, with sarge's > release appearing increasingly imminent, I need to try to get this > resolved. Google has, unfortunately, completely let me down on this.
> The hard drive is a Seagate ST340014A, and it's plugged into the main > IDE controller on my motherboard, a Tyan Tiger MPX S2466. According to > the manufacturer, this uses the AMD-760 MPX chipset. As far as I can > tell, I've configured my kernel correctly, but I'm still having serious > problems that occasionally result in filesystem corruption. > <snip> > I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that anyone might have. > Thanks much, > Richard I feel you pain, but since I only have a Tyan mp 2460 our hardware is a little bit different. I am running testing with a 2.6 kernel, and am having no problems. That being said I also use a journaling file system. I have used ext3, and assume you are using ext2, what kernel parameters are you pasing to the kernel? I use the noapic and acpi=off with good results, but some people can not tell the difference. Is their a reason you have not tried a 2.6 kernel? I know you are using woody, but you might want to consider upgrading, if you decide to go to sarge. A while back I did have some weird problems with a 2.4.25 kernel, could never figure it out either, I was using a Reiserfs and got some corruption, but to be honest I believe its chipset related. Here is why, in this system I have a CrystalFontz LCD which I use to monitor different systems specs. My harddrive is on a single primary, and I have two other drives sharing another IDE, durring heavy system use, say I use unrar, burning a CD or something else, sometimes in my system logs and on screen I get, serial line busy and it shuts down my Crystal Fontz LCD. Then if I try to restart it, like normal it won't come up, I have to go to init1, even then it sometimes does not comeup, until I reboot. So it would not surprise me if the chipset is flakey, also do you use a usb mouse, or keyboard? I know for at least the mp 2460 just having this has been know to lock the system up. I would suggest trying a 2.6 kernel, if your using testing or sarge, and just apt-get the k7 smp kernel image and see how it works with your DMA settings. Also I know that some mp mpx motherboards do not like certain graphics cards, I had a Nvidia 5600 ultra, and worked in mine, but Tyan does not support the FX series on my board. http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=265196 since then I switched back to a geforce2, that I rebuilt, put that ultra in a single cpu system, which is used to play Doom3. As far as knowing a silver bullet for fixing DMA in 2.4, I am at a loss other than what I said above. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]