Very Computer

A quick followup to my previous post.  Larry Doolittle kindly emailed the
following reply:

Quote:>Many people with IN2000's give up and replace it.  It works fine for
>others.  There are a couple of (slightly) incompatible ROM/logic
>revisions of the card, which confuses things.  It tends to work
>best under light load, so that the FIFO never fills up.

Are there any IN2000 users out there for whom this problem DOES NOT occur,
and if so, could you please post/email your ROM revisions?  This would
be mighty helpful in trying to track down this problem.

The problem:

I can't correctly access files from a DOS fs under Linux due to garbaged reads.
Where the garbage starts varies, but it always occurs on 8k boundaries offset
from the point of "garbage-onset".  I know that the problem began with kernel
v.1.1.60, where the 1024k block size reads were switched to 512b blocks (i.e.,
the problem didn't occur with 1.1.59 and prior kernels).  I believe the problem
is associated with the read-ahead caching system.  However, since I haven't
heard any other complaints on this topic, and I can't believe I'm the only
person using an IN2000 and accessing DOS fs's, I must acknowledge the
possibility that this is something particular to my system.  The controller
works fine in all other respects (i.e., ext2fs operations).

Thanks,

Steve
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