Hi, On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:16:45PM -0600, Steve Madere wrote: > >> Now the scenario: I bought a new cool dell laptop: > >> INSPIRON 8100, 512MB RAM, NVIDEA GeForce2Go 32MB, 30GB Hitachi hard disk > >> and a DVD. I bought it with WinME preinstalled, because it wasn't > >> possible to get it with linux nor without an OS. > > > >I've had many reports of IDE data corruption on i8100 laptops. Does > >booting the kernel with the "ide=nodma" option improve things? > I too have an inspiron 8100. > > I did find that adding ide=nodma to my boot options in grub cleared up > the problem. There are a number of potentially important IDE fixes in Andre's patchset. Could anyone seeing i8100 corruptions try out the 2.4.18-rc2-ac1 kernel with IDE DMA and see if that is reliable? Cheers, Stephen
