On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:20:24AM -0800, Peter DeVries wrote:
> Please help.. I'm at the end of my rope with this now.
> I have rebuilt this system and corupted my drive at
> least 30 times now. I have a ABIT KT7-RAID and no
> matter what I do with any kernel 2.2.16 - 2.4.2-ac19
> as soon as I turn on DMA mode the drive starts to
> corrupt and becomes useless. The corruption happens
> alot faster in 2.4xxx than the 2.2.xxx kernels.
Do you notice any programs getting SEGVs? If they do, it could be bad
RAM.
Personally, when I come across a machine which behaves oddly, the first
thing I'd try is checking the memory. You can get a copy of memtest86
for doing this.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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