Re: ext2 corruption in 2.4.2, scsi only system

2001-03-26 Thread Alan Cox
> After scanning the mailing list archives, I was under the impression that > this Buslogic issue was an AC series problem. Is there a known problem > with Buslogic controllers in 2.4.2? It seems there is. The changes in -ac and in 2.4.3pre limit the max blocks per request which seems to make

Re: ext2 corruption in 2.4.2, scsi only system

2001-03-26 Thread Dale E Martin
> Dale, > Alan Cox has reported the following: > > > 2.4.2-ac19 > > ... > > o Hopefully fix the buslogic corruptions (me) > > Alan's ac tree also contains a consolidated set of > patches from Eric Youngdale for the SCSI midlevel. > Alan's latest is ac25 and may be worth

Re: ext2 corruption in 2.4.2, scsi only system

2001-03-26 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Dale E Martin wrote: > [snip] > I had had good luck with 2.4.x on other boxes, so I put it > on this machine as well. Several times now I've seen ext2 > corruption with no other noteworthy logs. > . > The machine is a dual PPro, it has a Buslogic BT958 with a > single 9G scsi/wide drive

ext2 corruption in 2.4.2, scsi only system

2001-03-26 Thread Dale E Martin
Hello. I've got a dual PPro machine running 2.4.2, and Debian (stable + a little bit of "testing".) This machine is heavily loaded about 3/4 of the time, doing a daily regression test on a project we're working on. Bascially, the machine runs g++ about 18 hours a day on machine generated code.

ext2 corruption in 2.4.2, scsi only system

2001-03-26 Thread Dale E Martin
Hello. I've got a dual PPro machine running 2.4.2, and Debian (stable + a little bit of "testing".) This machine is heavily loaded about 3/4 of the time, doing a daily regression test on a project we're working on. Bascially, the machine runs g++ about 18 hours a day on machine generated code.

Re: ext2 corruption in 2.4.2, scsi only system

2001-03-26 Thread Dale E Martin
Dale, Alan Cox has reported the following: 2.4.2-ac19 ... o Hopefully fix the buslogic corruptions (me) Alan's ac tree also contains a consolidated set of patches from Eric Youngdale for the SCSI midlevel. Alan's latest is ac25 and may be worth trying (ac24 has

Re: ext2 corruption in 2.4.2, scsi only system

2001-03-26 Thread Alan Cox
After scanning the mailing list archives, I was under the impression that this Buslogic issue was an AC series problem. Is there a known problem with Buslogic controllers in 2.4.2? It seems there is. The changes in -ac and in 2.4.3pre limit the max blocks per request which seems to make it

Re: ext2 corruption in 2.4.2, scsi only system

2001-03-26 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Dale E Martin wrote: [snip] I had had good luck with 2.4.x on other boxes, so I put it on this machine as well. Several times now I've seen ext2 corruption with no other noteworthy logs. . The machine is a dual PPro, it has a Buslogic BT958 with a single 9G scsi/wide drive in it.