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Great to see this fix in official release, I will notify Ubuntu fortwith.
I am also delighted that you investigated the Windows/Linux "anomaly". The fact that the Windows driver also exhibits the problem down the stack gives me more confidence that Linux is not the poor relation as far as e1000 driver development is concerned. I am happy, in this instance, to be on the receiving end of a "put...
2008-02-13 22:31:20 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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Okay, I've also had a POSITIVE test result with the patch (on 82540EM mainboard) and the steady state imaging speed seems to be similar with the patched driver, possibly even marginally faster (hard to tell as this varies with ghost compression performance which in turn depends on randomness of data at particular point of HDD).
Anyway, well done you guys. Just hope you can roll out this patch...
2008-01-25 22:41:04 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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Okay, looks promising! I agree that 1612517 looks promising. Actually I did notice 1612517 before but, since it was submitted over a year ago, I didn't pay much attention to it :(
I will be back on site on Thursday; I will apply patch then and let you know how I get on.
2008-01-22 10:46:08 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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Great, I can now cancel my subscription to Paranoid Delinquents Magazine :)
I await the outcome with baited breath!
2008-01-17 10:50:43 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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I do know about the various Dell Optiplex issue relating to Ghost and have indeed updated to the latest BIOS, however I don't think this has anything to do with problem. The Ghost -fni -noide options will cure most problems. In any case, I would remind you that the problem arises not just with Ghost but with MS-DOS bulk copy operations as well.
I was actually in contact with Broadcom people...
2008-01-13 14:29:44 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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Okay Dave, one danger here is that you'll get sucked into a completely different quagmire i.e. making a reliable DOS client boot disk, getting Ghost options right and then setting up your image server. For example, your slow speed may be fixable with Ghost -FNI option.
This can take a lot of time to get right for the unwary! Even if you are an experienced DOS client/Ghost head, it would make...
2008-01-08 10:03:59 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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Okay to confirm current status..
1. The hardware has NOT changed but it is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC, not a HP!! I did perform a series of "inadvisable" distro upgrades to get an up-of-date kernel. As it stands, my linux setup is now a bit dodgy so I will need to do a fresh install.
2. I do not have a port-mirroring switch or even an old hub and my network sniffing capabilities are minimal. I...
2008-01-07 12:54:09 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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Just to confirm suspicions expressed here and elsewhere that this problem is not actually due to high data rates...just more likely to occur with lots of highly random data e.g. due to on-the-fly compression by Ghost.
Way back when I though this was a Samba bug, I thought a throttling solution would help.
Unable to find a reliable Server/Samba throttle mechanism, I looked at the...
2007-12-20 16:21:31 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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Just uploaded the *tail end* of a tcpdump from another failed test (sniff109.txt.bz2). I'm thinking that, since Ghost data transfer freezes at the error point, perhaps there is reduced LAN activity after that and the onset of the error is visible somewhere in the last tcpdump file. I don't have "tcpsplit" and can't find it in any Ubuntu package. This is a moot point anyway as I am unable to find...
2007-12-20 12:32:31 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
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File Added: sniff109.txt.bz2.
2007-12-20 11:58:32 UTC in Intel Wired Ethernet
