file system error

[Munjun Kang]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov>
To: "Munjun Kang" <malas at pinetron.com>
Cc: <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: file system error


> can you try a few things: 
> - do a raw dd command to the disk from /dev/zero and see if that works, 
> e.g. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
> 
> - turn off UDMA, in fact turn off ALL dma at first
> - try to make it run totally PIO
> 
> This is weird, but it does seem like some kind of DMA problem.
> 
> Also, boot under the normal bios and do an lspci -xxx and then do an lspci 
> -xxx under linuxbios and see if you see any IDE setup differences.
> 
> ron
>