Ben Russo wrote: <snip>
Sadly, adding '/sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdd' to rc.sysinit did not prevent the problem -- it happened a third time. The boot.log showed that idebus=33 was assumed.
> wondering if there are any known issues relating to filesystem > corruptions with symptoms similar to mine.
OK, so it is not a brand new system, try setting "idebus=33" at the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf and in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, add a line at the end like this:
/sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hda
You may find that this will make your system slower and jittery when there is heavy disk I/O, but I think that DMA with an old buggy IDE controller may be your problem. Older versions of Linux had IDE/DMA support turned off by default because bad IDE DMA hardware behavior was common. I think it started with RedHat 9 that they turned on DMA by default.
You may be able to repare the damage by doing "rpm --verify {rpmname}" and if you find unexplained problems re-installing the RPM in question.
Let us know if this works!
-Ben.
I changed a couple BIOS settings: Operating System={win95, win98/2000, OTHER} and Large Disks={dos, OTHER}.
Holding my breath, N.
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