Re: Data corruption using 2940U

Magnus & Tina (magnus@gol.com)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:54:19 +0100 (GMT+0100)


It could also be the disk.
Micropolis quality is so bad that my company have thrown them out.
We have to replace a LOT of disks with bad firmware causing data corruption.

/// Magnus Back

On 05-Aug-98 Carsten Gross wrote:
> In article <35C61849.6E9B0EF6@dialnet.net>,
> dledford@dialnet.net (Doug Ledford) writes:
>> [My Problem with corrupted data on a 2940U and SCSI discs]
>> Do you have tagged queueing enabled on the Micropolis drive? If so,
>> disable it because this sounds like one of those cases of broken tagged
>> queueing implementations causing silent corruption.
>
> Thanks for your answer. Tagged queueing is disabled on all drives as it is
> the default. But I think, I made the mistake (and I'm sorry about that):
>
> I've compiled the "old", problematic 2.1.111 kernel with egcs-1.03 using the
> '-O6 -mpentium' Option.
>
> Now I compiled 2.1.114 using '-O2 -mpentium' and now everything works
> perfect (as it used to be) with the 5.1.0-pre4 driver. I copied and compared
> about 2 GB this evening without problems and I hope its "just" a problem
> with egcs high optimization levels.
>
> Thanks for your work
>
> Carsten
>
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