I dug up a laptop with an ICH4 controller which negotiates at UDMA100. atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1810-0x181f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ad0: 38154MB <HITACHI DK13FA-40 00MCA0A6> at ata0-master UDMA100 ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 acd0: CDRW <UJDA755 DVD/CDRW/1.00> at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
I booted it with a NATA CD and ran this test: (use a read-only mount so the access time doesn't update and mess up the md5 check of the tar, and so the filesystem doesn't get destroyed by corrupted access time updates to the inodes). mount -o ro /dev/ad0s1a /mnt tar cf - /mnt | md5 umount /mnt mount -o ro /dev/ad0s1a /mnt tar cf - /mnt | md5 umount /mnt ... I get different MD5's!!! Definitely something isn't right here. I also got a weird panic related to memory corruption. I mounted a RW NFS filesystem and did the same thing with cpdup, then diff -r'd the target directories on the NFS server, and they had some serious corruption between them. mount nfserver:/blah /tmp/mnt2 mount -o ro /dev/ad0s1a /mnt cpdup /mnt /tmp/mnt2/test1 umount /mnt mount -o ro /dev/ad0s1a /mnt cpdup /mnt /tmp/mnt2/test2 umount /mnt mount -o ro /dev/ad0s1a /mnt cpdup /mnt /tmp/mnt2/test3 umount /mnt (and on the server): diff: copy2/etc/namedb/etc/namedb: recursive directory loop diff: copy2/ftp: No such file or directory diff: copy3/ftp: No such file or directory Binary files copy2/kernel and copy3/kernel differ Binary files copy2/kernel.NATA and copy3/kernel.NATA differ Binary files copy2/kernel.bak and copy3/kernel.bak differ Binary files copy2/kernel.old and copy3/kernel.old differ Binary files copy2/modules/aac.ko and copy3/modules/aac.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/acpi.ko and copy3/modules/acpi.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/aha.ko and copy3/modules/aha.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/hpfs.ko and copy3/modules/hpfs.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/if_ar.ko and copy3/modules/if_ar.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/ispfw.ko and copy3/modules/ispfw.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/linux.ko and copy3/modules/linux.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/mga.ko and copy3/modules/mga.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/miibus.ko and copy3/modules/miibus.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/mlx.ko and copy3/modules/mlx.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/msdos.ko and copy3/modules/msdos.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/procfs.ko and copy3/modules/procfs.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/radeon.ko and copy3/modules/radeon.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/smbfs.ko and copy3/modules/smbfs.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/snd_cs4281.ko and copy3/modules/snd_cs4281.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/snd_ich.ko and copy3/modules/snd_ich.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/snd_pcm.ko and copy3/modules/snd_pcm.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/svr4.ko and copy3/modules/svr4.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/tdfx.ko and copy3/modules/tdfx.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/twe.ko and copy3/modules/twe.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/udf.ko and copy3/modules/udf.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/uhid.ko and copy3/modules/uhid.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules/uvscom.ko and copy3/modules/uvscom.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules.old/snd_pcm.ko and copy3/modules.old/snd_pcm.ko differ Binary files copy2/modules.old/twa.ko and copy3/modules.old/twa.ko differ Binary files copy2/old.ko and copy3/old.ko differ Binary files copy2/root/intel_2200_wlan.zip and copy3/root/intel_2200_wlan.zip differ Binary files copy2/sbin/dump and copy3/sbin/dump differ Binary files copy2/sbin/rconfig and copy3/sbin/rconfig differ Binary files copy2/sbin/rdump and copy3/sbin/rdump differ Methinks there are some serious issues with NATA :-) Now that I can reproduce the problem, I should be able to track it down. I'll start working on that tomorrow, its getting a bit late tonight. What's weird is that I have no problems at all running NATA on my test box, which is atapci0: <nVidia nForce3 Pro UDMA133 controller> port 0xf900-0xf90f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 8.0 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 acd0: CDRW <CD-W54E/1.1B> at ata1-master PIO4 atapci1: <nVidia nForce3 Pro SATA150 controller> port 0xf300-0xf37f,0xf400-0xf40f,0xb70-0xb73,0x970-0x977,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x9f0-0x9f7 irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 ad6: 194481MB <Maxtor 6L200M0 BACE1G20> at ata3-master SATA150 I haven't had any problems at all, which narrows the possible location of the bug(s) considerably. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>