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Re: fsck finding thousands of errors



Levi Waldron wrote:
> 
> On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> >...
> > Are you using DMA?
> 
> ...  I didn't do anything outside of a
> normal  stock installation to turn DMA support on or off.

The Linux kernel and some IDE controllers don't work together, and
can cause several filesystem corruption.

You probably want to turn DMA off ("hdparm -d0 ...") until you can
confirm that this is not your problem.


Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net



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