Re: DMA & ext2 corruption

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Jay Link said:
> I'm having a problem with DMA -- without it, the drive is so slow it's
> barely usable, but with it, I suffer corruption.

What's the chipset?  If it is VIA, you might be screwed...

For this sort of thing, you are almost always best off trying
2.4.X-acY, which would currently be 2.4.4-ac8.  Alan Cox always tries
to get fixes for that sort of thing in his tree, even if the fixes are
ugly.

Steve
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