Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
Marco Gatti wrote: Linus Torvalds schrieb: Was there a dmesg out there somewhere? With 4G of RAM, you probably have some of it above the 4GB mark (because of RAM remapping etc, and the PCI decode hole in the low 4GB). It does sound like this is a DMA problem, and your controller cannot

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
Marco Gatti wrote: Linus Torvalds schrieb: Was there a dmesg out there somewhere? With 4G of RAM, you probably have some of it above the 4GB mark (because of RAM remapping etc, and the PCI decode hole in the low 4GB). It does sound like this is a DMA problem, and your controller cannot

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: > > Today, I tested with different amounts of RAM: > > 2 GB: everything works fine > 4 GB: same issue as described before with allocating block in system zone > > So what to do, in order to use more than 2 Gigs of RAM? Was there a dmesg out there

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-08 Thread Marco Gatti
Linus Torvalds schrieb: But the disk errors are something else, doesn't ring a bell. Sounds like IO corruption on the group descriptor block or something like that. Might be worth testing to see if the problem goes away with less than 4GB of RAM.. Today, I tested with different amounts

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-08 Thread Marco Gatti
Linus Torvalds schrieb: But the disk errors are something else, doesn't ring a bell. Sounds like IO corruption on the group descriptor block or something like that. Might be worth testing to see if the problem goes away with less than 4GB of RAM.. Today, I tested with different amounts

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: Today, I tested with different amounts of RAM: 2 GB: everything works fine 4 GB: same issue as described before with allocating block in system zone So what to do, in order to use more than 2 Gigs of RAM? Was there a dmesg out there somewhere?

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-06 Thread Marco Gatti
Linus Torvalds schrieb: But the disk errors are something else, doesn't ring a bell. Sounds like IO corruption on the group descriptor block or something like that. Might be worth testing to see if the problem goes away with less than 4GB of RAM.. Thanks, I'll try this, to see if there's

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-06 Thread Marco Gatti
Andrew Morton schrieb: But the effect is under every circumstances described above that I got after an unspecific time EXT3-fs errors. I tried to use different partitions, one for root and data, got errors on both. Dec 3 15:05:34 adira EXT3-fs error (device sdb4): ext3_new_block: Allocating

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135761=view > > It disables PCI BARs during sizing. ISTR Linus opining that this was the > wrong thing to do? It looks ok now that it doesn't do it for host controllers. I guess we could just apply it. >

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:54:57 +0100 Marco Gatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a brand new Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius W360 pc with a FSC D2587-A1 > motherboard. It has a intel q35 chipset. In bios I have the sata > controller in pure AHCI mode (legacy pata disabled). On windows >

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:54:57 +0100 Marco Gatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a brand new Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius W360 pc with a FSC D2587-A1 motherboard. It has a intel q35 chipset. In bios I have the sata controller in pure AHCI mode (legacy pata disabled). On windows

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135761action=view It disables PCI BARs during sizing. ISTR Linus opining that this was the wrong thing to do? It looks ok now that it doesn't do it for host controllers. I guess we could just apply it.

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-06 Thread Marco Gatti
Andrew Morton schrieb: But the effect is under every circumstances described above that I got after an unspecific time EXT3-fs errors. I tried to use different partitions, one for root and data, got errors on both. Dec 3 15:05:34 adira EXT3-fs error (device sdb4): ext3_new_block: Allocating

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-06 Thread Marco Gatti
Linus Torvalds schrieb: But the disk errors are something else, doesn't ring a bell. Sounds like IO corruption on the group descriptor block or something like that. Might be worth testing to see if the problem goes away with less than 4GB of RAM.. Thanks, I'll try this, to see if there's