On Jan 23, 2002 10:54 +0100, Patrick Ohnewein wrote:
> I send you the hdparm informations, on the hdd I changed from udma5 to
> udma4, suggested me on the dell-linux mailing list. It seams I have
> lesser problems, but they persist.
Can you try disabling UDMA entirely? This would help determine if it
is a disk/hardware problem or a Linux IDE driver problem.
> Now the logs about my problems, the fresh one from today ;)
>
> Jan 23 10:02:22 inspiron kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
> Jan 23 10:02:23 inspiron kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> Jan 23 10:02:23 inspiron kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> Jan 23 10:02:23 inspiron kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)):
> ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #892807: rec_len is smaller than
> minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
This is definitely an IDE issue, and not an ext3 issue. The ext3
error is simply reporting that the data it tried to read is bad
(all zero) for a directory.
You could also try Andre Hedrick's IDE patches, which are supposed to
fix some kinds of UDMA problems with some chipsets. This requires that
you patch and compile your own kernel (or you can try a kernel like
2.4.18-ac which has these patches included).
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
