Re: File Corruption in Kernel 2.4.18

[Wilfried Weissmann]

Ville Herva wrote:
> I had enormous trouble with a KT133(A or not) based mobo (Abit-KT7(A)-RAID
> in past - it would just corrupt data when transferring big files from the
> additional ide controller (HPT370 in this case). The Via ide controller
> didn't show this behaviour.

I got a Abit-KT7-RAID with a AMD Thunderbird 800 and also have seen lots 
of trouble. Finally I have figured out that reducing the memory bus 
clock to 100MHz (instead of 133MHz) make my system pretty stable (My 
memory modules can take 133MHz! I checked the specs.). Maybe that 
chipset memory tweaks that the linux kernel does are not enough to fix 
all memory problems...

[snip]
> - Ditched the mobo fo good, bought an Abit ST6R, and never had a problem
>   since. You may be lucky just switching the drive to Via ide.

Well, after messing around with the mobo for almost 2 years, it finally 
seems to be stable. But I wish I could have done useful stuff with my 
computer during that time.

[snip]
> I repoduced the problem with wrchk utility I wrote
> (http://iki.fi/v/tmp/wrchk.c) but it seems you can do it with you directory
> tree copying.

I got to check this out!

bye,
Wilfried