I saw that you mentioned PPP, so I'll assume you're running it over the
serial ports. In this case, the quick & dirty 'fix' for you is to run
hdparm -u1 /dev/hda (and repeat for every IDE harddisk in the system).
On the serial side of things, it looks like the receive fifo threshold
gets set to 8, giving 607ms @115.2K or 1214ms @57.6K to clean out the
fifo. Folks, help me on this one, but doesn't it take all of 35ms to
transfer a 512 bytes over an ISA bus? Let's say I'm off by a factor of
three: the IDE driver is then masking interrupts for 6 sectors worth of
data?
Now, I'll repeat a request made previously: would people with IDE HDs that
corrupt data when used with hdparm -u1 please step forward so we can start
making blacklists and further debugging?
-ben
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