> My feeling is that I have hit some kind of memory leak. The only strange
there's some discussion on linux-kernel about an inode memory leak.
> points of my setup are that I'm using IDE drives hooked to the on-board
> IDE interface: Acer Labs M5229 TXpro, and a Promise Technology IDE UltraDMA/33
> This is not a SCSI based system. Ethernet is an EEPro 100.
none of that is particularly strange.
> The only strange points logged by the kernel were around 15 messages like:
> hdf: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdf: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
this is a GOOD thing! it means that some UDMA33 transaction detected
some corruption during transmission (and retried). SCSI only has parity,
so might well have missed it. if you had lots of these messages, it would
be a good idea to verify that your IDE cable is short (must be <18").
regards, mark hahn.
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