[PLUG] Debian

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Matthew Laurence Wirges wrote:

> Heres the thing, it does that with the "out of the box" kernel and it did
> it with my own 2.4.3 kernel that I compiled...

Try the linux-kernel mailing list then.  Also check the setting of "Use
DMA by default when available" (CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO) in the kernel and
set it to N "If you suspect your hardware is at all flakey" as it
suggests.  Playing with hdparm DMA and transfer mode settings may help.  
If disabling special transfer modes doesn't help, there may be other
kernel drivers or hardware causing corruption in the filesystem memory.  
Also even if you manage to recover from the read-only mode, you'll still
want to fsck for a clean filesystem.  Otherwise the kernel will happily
re-read bad block info off the disk and repeat the problem.

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Jeff DeFouw <defouwj@purdue.edu>