Hey guys. Many thanks for all you responses.
My drive is DMA100 ide drive running on a promise fasttrak raid controller on my motherboard. It's been quite happy up until recently when I upgraded a bunch of packages. This seemed to start the ball rolling. I think I'm gonna disable DMA, add the noauto line to my fstab and see if I can try to salvage some of my important data from the drive. Then I'm gonna reinstall debian and try to get my apt pinning sorted out so I only upgrade versions of things I need. Any ideas if I add the noauto whether I'll be able to mount the corrupted drive? RobD > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Daniel B. > Sent: 10 October 2003 22:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably > > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt > > > the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA. > > >... > > > Daniel > > > > While DMA related corruption may be the problem in Rob's case, I believe > > most of the problems have been worked out. I say this because I have an > > nForce2 mobo (one of the more problematic) running a Debianized 2.4.22 > > kernel without any sort of data corruption problems. > > Maybe many have been worked out, but problems still remain. > > 2.4.18 trashes my disk if I enable DMA. > 2.4.22 just trashed my disk because it turns on DMA by default (before > my init scripts turned it off). > 2.4.22 and 2.4.18 occasionally just hang permanently (not sure if > DMA-related or even IDE-releated). > 2.4.18 gives 15- or 20-second hangs once in a while (seems IDE-related). > > What IDE controller does your motherboard have? (Mine is an Asus > A7M266-D (dual-Athlon MP), with an on-board AMD768 (for which DMA > apparently doesn't work reliably yet).) > > > Daniel > -- > Daniel Barclay > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
