On Wed, 27 May 1998 16:02:03 +1000, Bradley Baetz <bbaetz@uuscss.cs.usyd.edu.au> said:
> I recently noticed an option for speed enhancements for my ide chipset,
> and was looking at the different timings in transferring 10000k to
> /dev/null. I did this once, but then did a killall anacron to stop the
> updatedb cron job for affecting the results:
> May 26 18:09:34 onion kernel: free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 00000200
Looks like a one-bit memory corruption. This free_one_pmd error is a
good sign of hardware failure. The IDE speedups are disabled by
default for good reason: poor quality or borderline hardware does not
always cope with it. I'd just disable the speedups and forget about
it.
--Stephen
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