RE: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably
Hey guys.
Many thanks for all you responses.
My drive is DMA100 ide drive running on a promise fasttrak raid controller
on my motherboard. It's been quite happy up until recently when I upgraded a
bunch of packages. This seemed to start the ball rolling.
I think I'm gonna disable DMA, add the noauto line to my fstab and see if I
can try to salvage some of my important data from the drive.
Then I'm gonna reinstall debian and try to get my apt pinning sorted out so
I only upgrade versions of things I need.
Any ideas if I add the noauto whether I'll be able to mount the corrupted
drive?
RobD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dsb@gemini.smart.net [mailto:dsb@gemini.smart.net]On Behalf Of
> Daniel B.
> Sent: 10 October 2003 22:24
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably
>
>
> Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > >...
> > > 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.
>
> Maybe many have been worked out, but problems still remain.
>
> 2.4.18 trashes my disk if I enable DMA.
> 2.4.22 just trashed my disk because it turns on DMA by default (before
> my init scripts turned it off).
> 2.4.22 and 2.4.18 occasionally just hang permanently (not sure if
> DMA-related or even IDE-releated).
> 2.4.18 gives 15- or 20-second hangs once in a while (seems IDE-related).
>
> What IDE controller does your motherboard have? (Mine is an Asus
> A7M266-D (dual-Athlon MP), with an on-board AMD768 (for which DMA
> apparently doesn't work reliably yet).)
>
>
> Daniel
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> Daniel Barclay
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