Tested this with 2 identical WDC 120GB 7200rpm 8MB cache hard drives on a VIA vt8233 IDE UDMA100 controller (MSI KT266 Pro2-U motherboard). Both times reiserfsck reports the same bad block on each drives. Reiserfsprogs is newer then 3.6.4-r1. Solution: Go back to reiserfsprogs 3.6.4-r1.
you didnt provide `emerge info` nor did you really say what version is 'broken' please re-open if 3.6.11 or 3.6.17 fail to work for you
I am having a similar problem trying to transition my system from kernel 2.4.25-r2 to 2.6.7-r5. The 2.6 kernel will fail to boot reporting bad blocks when checking the root partition. The 2.4 kernel boots and is stable. The system has a WDC 40gb drive and a VIA vt82c686b IDE UDMA100 chipset, so it is somewhat similar to the original poster's. The original version of reiserfsprogs installed 3.6.11. I have tried downgrading to 3.6.8 and upgrading to 3.6.17 without success. Forum threads that report similar problems include: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=143158 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=149661 thunderlizzard root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.25-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime rage128 readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I solved my own problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=189808
