Re: IDE, util-linux

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 11:05:11 EST


Don't run vanilla 2.5.25, it has only IDE-93...

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Yesterday util-linux 2.11t was released.
> As always, comments are welcome.
>
> Wanted to continue some usb-storage work on 2.5 and
> recklessly booted 2.5.25. It survived for several hours,
> then deadlocked. Two filesystems turned out to be corrupted.
> Wouldn't mind if the rock solid 2.4 handling of HPT366
> was carefully copied to 2.5, that today quickly causes
> corruption and quickly deadlocks or crashes.
> [Yes, these are independent bugs. The fact that the current
> IDE code writes to random disk sectors is much more annoying
> than the fact that it crashes and deadlocks. This random
> writing is observed only on disks on the HPT366 card.]
>
> Andries

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