Re: [SCARED] Is ext2 unreliable?

From: Sasi Peter (sape@iq.rulez.org)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 10:36:25 EST


On Tue, 16 May 2000, Matthias Andree wrote:

> You problem if you're buying an ATAPI CDROM drive. Get a good SCSI
> adaptor and never think about DMA again. Consider getting a
> multiple-IDE-disks-to-SCSI-adaptor.

Does such a thing exsist? I supose that in that case somebody would have
to finally utilize the command queuing capability of ATA-4 that currently
is not utilized in neither windows drivers, nor linux ide driver...

> So you're in trouble. If you're willing to test, you might eventually
> get fixes. If you're unable to test, you're not getting fixes at all.

Why i tried this list was that i thought, that maybe somebody will just
solace me like: 'cool man, it a nknown bug fixed in xxxx linux w/ ext2 is
still the best choice'.

-- SaPE

Peter, Sasi <sape@sch.hu>

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