Alan Cox wrote: >> # Make a RAID5 array of 3 out of the 4 drives I'll eventually be using >> mdadm --create /dev/md6 --chunk=64 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 >> /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 missing >> # Make the FS >> mkfs.ext3 /dev/md6 >> # Test >> cp KNOPPIX_V5.1.0CD-2006-12-30-EN.iso kn1.iso >> cp kn1.iso kn2.iso >> cp kn2.iso kn3.iso >> cp kn3.iso kn4.iso >> # Check >> md5sum *.iso >> eea5ecb53f1c6a397bcfeedc2fd42c64 kn1.iso >> 0360941210aa2d7159999e37c636f8cb kn2.iso >> md5sum: kn3.iso: Input/output error >> 86b008915fe02569a513b6c5ec45a523 kn4.iso > > Not suprised to be honest. We have a large number of reports that are all > of the following form > > "Nvidia chipset, Silicon Image SATA, corruption" > > and several reports that BIOS updates fixed it. Unfortunately we don't > know what the BIOS updates do (or indeed if what they do is board > specific) or how to work around it otherwise. I thought good number of those were the IOMMU bug but I could be mistaken. Considering the large number of sata_sil's in the field, it's a bit surprising to see we still have this kind of problem. :-( -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
