Re: filesystem corruption
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
>> On 26 Feb 2004 16:33:44 -0500
>> Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > >> diff -Nru a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
>> > >> diff -Nru a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
>> >
>> > Why don't I believe this changeset is going to affect an IDE DMA
>> > problem? :-)
>>
>> UGH, sorry about that. I think I blew away the diff I did write too.
>>
>> I bet it's something other than this reset thing that is causing the
>> DMA problems because tristating the lines at reset will not have any
>> impact later on after the device is fully going already.
I was told that toggling those bits was a workaround for some sort of
chipset bug. I don't know what the bug is, but I could imagine some
firmware state which doesn't get properly reset at power-on, which
this resets as a side effect. Or something.
Marc
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