Hello, On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:00:57AM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote: > Just a quick progress note. I'm most familiar with Suse and not familiar > with kernel builds so last night I installed the pre-built > Kernel:/HEAD/11.2 kernel from the opensuse build service. It's 2.6.37. There are plenty of howtos on building kernel. It takes some time to get used to but once you get a hang of it there's nothing difficult about it. It usually is best to figure out small kernel configuration which contain everything necessary to bring up the root filesystem and other important hardware so that you don't have to worry about initrd and modules. > It was late so all I did was copy a 1.7 GB file to and from the new disk > on the VT6241A controller. No errors were logged. Incidentally, what's > the best way of testing for this type of reliability? The best way would be finding out a workload which doesn't take too much time but reliably triggers the issue on a problematic kernel. > Tonight I plan to compile that kernel, which should confirm that I > understand how to do it, and then I'll disable the VIA FIFO workaround > as you suggest and see what happens. Have fun! -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
