On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:16:03 -0800
John McCorquodale
I just grabbed -171 and gave it a whirl on my S2885. It seems to reintroduce the IOMMU optimization that was problematic on 3ware and QLogic cards a while back and fixed in -156 (all trace of the changes to kernel/pci-gart.c relating to the 'nofullflush' option have disappeared). Booting -171 sees all sorts of DMA corruption doing things like paging in libc, then it eats my / as soon as it writes the superblock out (wrong). Fun!
Am I mistaken, or is there something more recent/better than -171 floating around out there?
The latest released 9.0 kernel is -178 (including security updates, so you should definitely update). It has the workaround enabled by default. It also has updated SATA support. -Andi