[ltp] Re: SuSE 9.1 on Thinkpad, cont'd.

[Eben King]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 sltp@rhythm.cx wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:44:46AM -0400, Eben King wrote:
> > After futzing with the kernel compilation (2.6.7) on my T40 a bit, 
> 
> I was just wondering, did building your own 2.6.7 kernel for your T40 fix
> the problems you were having with the hard disk I/O errors? 

No, the HD I/O errors were because the partition table was malformed, in
order to hide the pre-desktop area.  I eliminated the errors by having the
last primary partition (hda4) end early (where it should, according to the
partition table).  The unmodified (from kernel.org) kernels couldn't deal
with an "invalid" partition, while SuSE's kernel (and installer) had no
problem with it.  One of these days I'll recreate the partition table, but
I'm hesitant to do that without a backup.

> And these things only happen in linux and only when running on
> battery power and only when the drive is spun down and is about to be spun
> back up. So far none of these issues caused permanent filesystem damage.

Hmm, is reiserfs built into the kernel or modularized?  Maybe you should 
try a different filesystem.

> I was thinking of trying a newer fresh built kernel or a different
> filesystem, but that's a lot of work so I just thought I'd see if your
> problem was solved by doing that.

Mine wasn't acting up in that manner.

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