Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution
On Sunday 19 January 2003 02:48 pm, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Al Davis(ad15@freeelectron.net) is reported to have said:
> > > How do I find out?
> If you are using the bf24 kernel then the config is installed
in /boot.
> grep VIA /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
> CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m
> CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y
> CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=m
Thanks. That is what I was looking for.
My real reason for asking ...
I was getting disk corruption with an older kernel (2.4.8 or
2.4.18, Mandrake). A colleague said it might have something
to do with a hardware bug (south bridge VIA VT82C686). He also
said there was a fix in recent kernels. I thought it was bad
memory. It did have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y . The
workaround was to disable DMA. As expected, it has now been
reliable but slow.
I have since installed Debian, with 2.4.20-bf2.4, and now I
wonder if it is safe to re-enable DMA.
> Lots of good documentation about the Debian way of installing
> kernels in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/*.
That module wasn't installed here. I will look.
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