On Wednesday 10 October 2007 11:12:20 Bernd Schubert wrote: > On Monday 08 October 2007 17:09:17 Bernd Schubert wrote: > > [sorry for sending twice, but after I read the sil sources, I see the > > mail address had been wrong] > > > > Hi, > > > > somehow the sil3114 causes data corruption with some (newer?) disks. > > Simply filling the filesystem with zeros and reading the these data will > > make the kernel to report filesystem corruption. > > This is definitely not an issue of memory, since the systems (several > > tested) do have ECC memory and the memory is monitored with EDAC. > > > > kernel versions tested: 2.6.15-2.6.20 > > Update: Setting sata_sil.slow_down=1 fill fix the problem, seems there are > some drives missing in the quirk table. > > Jeff, I found an old patch/workaround from you > (http://uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.1/1957.html), can you > give me any further information why this never went into the driver? > I will send 3 mails with patches to fix this corruption. -- Bernd Schubert Q-Leap Networks GmbH - 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
