[Linux-Discussion] Re: VIA bug not the kernel's fault!
- From: Matteo Ianeselli <ianezz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:46:53 +0200
John Madden writes:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html
>
> There's been a lot of filesystem corruption going on lately with VIA
> chipsets, and it was assumed to be a problem with the VIA IDE kernel
> driver. Turns out it's a VIA problem involving DMA or something.
> Lovely...
In the meanwhile, it should be enough to disable DMA transfers on the
devices (but they shouldn't be enabled by default).
hdparm -d 0 /dev/hd...
(as root) should do the trick.
If unsure, you can check with
hdparm -d /dev/hd...
(i.e. no parameter for -d).
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