"Ronald G. Minnich" rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
any ideas?
ron
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:35:52 +0900 From: Munjun Kang malas@pinetron.com To: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov Subject: Re: file system error
Thanks for your reply.
I tried as your suggest.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=10000 ~ 100000 Segmentation fault's are occured in random by count.
and then, turn off the UDMA feature by hdparm option. But, I can see same symptom.
All DMA is turned off hdparm -d0 /dev/hda ??
In this time, I tried to attach SCSI & IEEE1394 SBP-2 devices. case1. Adaptec 2930 SCSI adapter + 8GB Seagate SCSI HDD case2. IEEE1394 Interface card + external IEEE1394 HDD both cases show the same problem.
The northbridge having DMA problems is still a canidate. SCSI disks do DMA as well.
Now, I think it's not a DMA problem. I'm in the maze. hmmmm......
Is there any clear hint?
Past history with the Athlon problems on VIA chipsets says that some VIA northbridges have problems with burst traffic.
And either DMA or a fast memory copy could trigger it. memtest86 currently does not have an optimized memcpy so it could miss that problem.
Currently I consider your northbridge to be the best canidate. The same kernel is run under both BIOSes?
Compared to your previous BIOS are there any unknown settings in the northbridge?
In particular what are the differences between, on both boards, and can you account for the differences. lspci -s 0:0.0 -xxx And can you account for all differences.
Eric