I recently upgraded to 4GB of ram and I don't seem to have the corruption problems. I'm running hardware raid 0 accross 2 sata drives. I copied practicaly the entire root filesystem onto the sata array as a test. This was about 34G of stuff. My root filesystem is a normal IDE drive. I ran rpm -V -a before and after the test.
What kernel do you run? The old 2.4.19 kernel didn't have this problem. It was only a side effect of some other changes in the 2.4.21 kernel.
I'm running: uname -a Linux suse 2.4.21-171-smp #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 17:52:34 UTC 2003 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I just reran the test by copying the majority of my root filesystem to the sata array and still no changes reported with rpm -V -a. I also read through the previous threads on this subject and someone had the suspicion that it could also be related to a tyan issue (bios?). Since I dont have tyan I wonder if this is correct. I guess I should be glad its not effecting my system in any case. Mark
I have an arima hdama motherboard and I have IOMMU disabled in the bios. Any idea if this makes a difference?
It doesn't make a difference. Linux can use the IOMMU even when it is disabled in the BIOS.
-Andi