I have seen this problem so many times.. you will have to switch off
DMA on the IDE devices.. this is done by editing the /etc/lilo.conf
file and by adding "ide=nodma" to the append line..
e.g
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
#this is were the change is made
append="quiet devfs=mount ide=nodma"
vga=788
read-only
Once you have edited the lilo.conf don't forget to run the lilo command,
or the changes will do nothing..
Cheers
Mark
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 04:21, Bjarne Thomsen wrote:
> I have a colleague who has just gotten a PC
> based on the ASUS A7V266-E motherboard and
> an 80GB IBM IDE disk for fast numerical work.
> He is running LM 8.2 without modifications.
> The IDE disk is partitioned into ext3 and xfs
> partitions. / and /usr are ext3 are ext3,
> the rest are xfs. In addition he has mounted
> file systems on two different computers (A and B) using NFS.
>
> He has 3 times consistently been able to crash the
> OS resulting in a file corruption on the IDE disk.
>
> This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb
> file from the file system on computer A to the file
> system on computer B by the program cp on the PC
> running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2
> file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence).
>
> Ist this problem caused by
> (a) the VIA chipset?
> (b) the AMD processor?
> (c) the UDMA setting?
> (d) the IDE driver?
> (e) the ext2/ext3 FS?
> (f) the NFS system?
> (g) or something else?
>
> We should appreciate very much if any of you
> could give us any advice on how to proceed.
>
> We have the advantage that we know how to
> produce the corruption?
>
> -- Bjarne Thomsen
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