Strange IDE going-ons in 2.3.41

[Luca Lizzeri]

I had some IDE resets on my /home partition on /dev/hdc3. After backing
up, 
I restarted having disabled the loading of VMWare modules, I unmounted
/home
and ran e2fsck on it, and had the following output:

$ e2fsck -f /dev/hdc3

e2fsck 1.17, 26-Oct-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Error reading block 524292 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in
short read) while doing inode scan.  Ignore error<y>?

Responding yes resulted in the same question for each successive block.
This
will repeat reliably with 2.3.41.

Restarting with 2.2.15pre4 presented none of this problems.

I don't have any < 2.3.41 handy. Let me know if I have to unpatch and
retest.

The board is a Tyan Trinity with the VIA chipset. Relevant dmesg output
is 
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VT 82C597 Apollo VP3 Chipset Core ATA-33
Split FIFO Configuration:  8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
                           8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success


hdc: ST38410A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ST38410A, 8223MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=16708/16/63, UDMA


The partitions on /dev/hdc are:

Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16708 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1             1      4162   2097616+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc2          4163      4423    131544   82  Linux swap
/dev/hdc3          4424     16708   6191640   83  Linux

Need any more diagnostics ?

Thanks
        Luca Lizzeri

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