Bug#345864: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: bug results in filesystem corruption

[Rob Leslie <rob@mars.org>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1
Followup-For: Bug #345864

I've also experienced extensive filesystem corruption due to this bug.

I discovered this thread which seems to identify the problem:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8169

As a workaround, commenting out the "dma = on" lines in /etc/hdparm.conf does
avoid the problem (and the disks will still use DMA.)

The severity of this bug should really be changed to "critical".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.97-5.3   The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.11     Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85g      tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                  2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i