Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:59:57PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > I should also add that the 3.11 driver seems to make things better, but > not yet perfect. My intuition tells me that I get CRC errors much sooner > with 2.1e than with 3.11. > > Has the timings changed from 2.1e to 3.11,

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
I should also add that the 3.11 driver seems to make things better, but not yet perfect. My intuition tells me that I get CRC errors much sooner with 2.1e than with 3.11. Has the timings changed from 2.1e to 3.11, and would it be easy to modify 3.11 to get extra safe/paranoid, but less high

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > So the drive *did* work on the vt82c686a in the A7V board? You tested it > > > both on the Promise and on the 686a? But doesn't work on the 686a in > > > your other board? > > > > Yes, on both the Promise and on the 686a. But the device revisions

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:45:09AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > > > > I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at > > > home (Promise ATA100 an VIA

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > > I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at > > home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V > > motherboard), and there are no

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at > home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V > motherboard), and there are no problems to be found with DMA enabled. > Streaming

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V motherboard), and there are no problems to be found with DMA enabled. Streaming 10

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V motherboard), and there are no problems

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:45:09AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: So the drive *did* work on the vt82c686a in the A7V board? You tested it both on the Promise and on the 686a? But doesn't work on the 686a in your other board? Yes, on both the Promise and on the 686a. But the device revisions are

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
I should also add that the 3.11 driver seems to make things better, but not yet perfect. My intuition tells me that I get CRC errors much sooner with 2.1e than with 3.11. Has the timings changed from 2.1e to 3.11, and would it be easy to modify 3.11 to get extra safe/paranoid, but less high

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-14 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:59:57PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: I should also add that the 3.11 driver seems to make things better, but not yet perfect. My intuition tells me that I get CRC errors much sooner with 2.1e than with 3.11. Has the timings changed from 2.1e to 3.11, and

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-13 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V motherboard), and there are no problems to be found with DMA enabled. Streaming 10 MB/s without glitches. However, writing to the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer

2001-01-13 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V motherboard), and there are no problems to be found with DMA enabled. Streaming 10 MB/s without glitches. However, writing to the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk