MisterE wrote: > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0 > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4.00: (BMDMA2 stat 0x650001) > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4.00: cmd ca/00:f8:47:e1:5e/00:00:00:00:00/e4 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 out > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: res 51/04:98:a7:e1:5e/00:00:00:00:00/e4 Emask 0x1 (device error) > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4: EH complete > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > > I'm not sure if it will result in corrupt data? But i don't trust it > anymore. That looks like a data transmission error. When you're transferring massive amount of data, things like that can happen and it won't cause data corruption. > You people advise me to not buy the Promise SATA300 TX4 controller and > this Sweex PU102 (3512) seems to have problems. Not much choices left > except the really expensive solutions. > > Is it really so hard to build a controller without problems?!? :( It seems so. :-( -- 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