On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:20:23 +0200, MisterE wrote: > I build another setup with almost the same hardware. > This motherboard had already the latest bios. > I notice that the computer does almost never find the hard drive > although the controller is found every time (with lspci). So i get no > drive (sda) assigned. I don't always see the "bios" screen from the > controller at startup. And in the past it showed the hard drive. > So i could not experiment with this motherboard. > > After that i installed Windows XP and used the orginal (sweex) > drivers with the first motherboard. This also makes the data corrupt. > So it seems not to be an linux problem. So there is something wrong with > the motherboard or the 3512 controller. > > After that i plugged both hard drives (ide with windows and sata disk) > to the Asus board. No data corruption. So the hard disks are'nt the > problem either. > > I'm thinking of replacing both 3512 controllers with a Promise SATA300 > TX4. Do you know if there are problems with this device? (please don't top-post) There are no known data-corruption issues with Promise SATA cards. However, some of them, especially the 2nd generation SATA300 TX4, are known to trigger intermittent error interrupts (that are dealt with but may cause a speed reduction) in some systems. We're still scratching our heads on that issue. /Mikael > Friday, September 28, 2007, 6:55:47 PM, you wrote: > > > Alan Cox wrote: > >>> sda1 are corrupted (2 to 4 blocks missing). Copying that data back to > >>> Windows and it give the same results in Quickpar. So reading does not > >>> have problems. The data written to hda1 is correct. > >> > >> We've got a whole pile of reports like this with the 3512 and almost > >> always Nvidia chipset, plus reports of BIOS updates fixing it. That you > >> see something similar on intel boards is a bit worrying. > > > Multiple sil3112/3512 + nvidia chipset problem doesn't usually involve > > device errors or timeouts. It usually corrupts data silently. And, > > yeah, data corruption on intel board is really disturbing. > > > MisterE, do you have any processor powersaving mechanism enabled? If > > so, can you disable all and see whether that changes anything? - 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
