Re: FS corruption on Dell Inspiron 8k w/ IBM-DJSA-220

[Emil Eifrem]

On 25 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> Please replicate the problem from a boot where you have never loaded
> binary only drivers like NVdriver. That way we might actually be able to
> try and debug it.
> 
> So I'd say get rid of NVdriver for a bit, force an fsck to check the
> disk is clean then duplicate the corruption/crash and report it

I upgraded to the latest RH 7.3 kernel (as per Bill's suggestion), removed
all NVidia drivers, booted up in runlevel 1 and tried to reproduce the
problem. After a couple of hours of copying 1 gig files between
partitions, it hasn't crashed. This could be thanks to a bugfix that went
into 2.4.18-5 (as opposed to 2.4.18-3), but I wouldn't count on it.

The problems I've experienced so far (crashes, fs corruption, etc) have
been irregular at best and sometimes when I've made a supposed fix (such
as disabling DMA), ran some test scripts for several hours which passed
without a problem -- only to get a crash or corruption a week later.

Anyway, I'll let the laptop shuffle files overnight and drop you guys a 
report if it does crash.

-EE