Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Daniel B. wrote:
> The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt
> the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA.
>
> **Rob:  If you are using IDE disks (if you don't know that you have
> SCSI disks, you most surely have IDE disks), you should immediately
> disable DMA.  
>
> (E.g., add "ide=nodma" to your kernel command line.  Where you can set 
> your kernel command line depends on how you boot.)
>
>
> Daniel

While DMA related corruption may be the problem in Rob's case, I believe
most of the problems have been worked out.  I say this because I have an
nForce2 mobo (one of the more problematic) running a Debianized 2.4.22
kernel without any sort of data corruption problems.

-Roberto

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