Re: 2.5.27 IDE: problems, again.

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 20:38:12 EST


On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Brad Hards wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:45, Stelian Pop wrote:
> > Disabling PIIX chipset support & dma makes the kernel survive for
> > some longer time (between 10 seconds and 2-3 minutes), but it will
> > eventually halt, this time CORRUPTING THE DATA!
> See Bart's comments in separate post.
>
> > Right now I'm trying to recover my disk partition...
>
> You are *out of your fscking mind*.

Yup, learn hints by heart ;-).

> Why are you running 2.5 on a machine that has anything worth
> recovering on it? IDE or SCSI, no matter.
>
> Standard 2.5 equipment includes a CD drive with the install disk(s)
> for $DISTRO ready to drop into the drive as soon as anything looks
> bad. Advanced 2.5 requires a duplicate hard disk on a removable drive
> caddy :)

I somehow managed to go through 2.5 without any recovering
(even doing ATA and block layer development), call me lucky ;-).

Few hints on running 2.5 on production machine:
- don't run every new kernel revision, wait for some time and read lkml
  (if there are any problems noticed)
- even better wait for next revision and read changelog,
  decide if you can apply now previous revision
- don't run default IDE, get 2.4 IDE patch
- be careful, double thinking mode on :-)

Regards

--
Bartlomiej

> Brad > > -- > http://conf.linux.org.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Australia. Birds in Black.

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