> > > This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller:
> > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06)
> >
> > There are several people who have reported that the 2.4.0 VIA IDE driver
> > trashes hard disks like that. The 2.2 one also did this sometimes but only
> > with specific chipset versions and if you have dma autotune on (thats why
> > currently 2.2 refuses to do tuning on VP3)
> >
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> I had exactly the same problem with my K6-350 and IDE VT82C586a
> on a kernet 2.2.16 ..... i just made a hdparm to enable DMA and pooffff....
> lost all data .... reinstall necessary from scratch
Is this problem still present with 2.4.0? Well, you don't need to kill
your data to test this - make sure the kernel is mounting the
filesystems read only in the test. DMA will be probably enabled
automatically for your drives.
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