Re: Linux-2.5.28

[Larry McVoy]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 09:40:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > I'm talking about people who don't even bother to do
> > bug-reports, but only trash-talk the maintenance.
> 
> On that note, let me mention the machines I personally am using IDE, and
> apparently do not see problems: a dual PII with "Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4
> IDE", and a P4 with "SiS 5513 IDE (rev 208)".
> 
> Both setups in DMA mode, both setups have one disk per channel (first
> channel is disk, second channel is CD-ROM).
> 
> So what are the patterns for "working" vs "broken"?

In the probably-not-useful department because I haven't tested on 2.5, 
my experience over a quite some time has been that you find a lot more
problems when you are actively beating on both channels.  There is some
chipset, I suspect you know which but Andre certainly does, that is just
basically busted when you use both channels.  I've had so many problems
with this that for any data I care about I plug in a 3ware controller
and use that instead.

I have a diskscrubber program which runs the bits through a series of
changes, it's pretty trivial to write but I can post mine if you like,
it works for banging on the disk.