linux-kernel - Re: 'vintage' via dma bug

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:40:52 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	febo@...enda.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'vintage' via dma bug

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:36:00PM +0200, febo@...enda.net wrote:
 > I have the misfortune to run a rather old PIII machine with a VIA chipset, 
 > a Fedora Core 1 distro with 2.4.22 kernel and two PATA hard mirrored hard 
 > disk, on two separate channels, both set to primary. I've experienced some 
 > data corruption lately and after much googling I've found that 4-5 years 
 > ago some via chipset experienced a similar problem with dma transfers, 
 > especially with hard disk configured the very same way as my setup. The bug 
 > was fixed, I gather, in 2.4.4. I've upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10 (the 
 > latest Fedora legacy core *TWO* kernel, with fingers crossed) but the 
 > corruption problems usually start to pop up only after a few weeks of 
 > uptime, especially under relatively heavy load.
 > I couldn't find more precise pointers after all these years so I'd like to 
 > know if that bug really affected my chipset, and if 2.6.10 is a valid 
 > solution.. 

I'm puzzled why you upgraded from one end-of-life'd distro to
another ancient end-of-life'd distro.   You're more likely to get
interest from the upstream developers if you're running
something recent.  Even _I_ don't remember what was good/bad
in the Fedora kernels from that era, and I built them :-)

		Dave

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