Michael Barnwell wrote: > I'm experiencing silent data corruption > on my RAID 5 set of four 400GB SATA disks. I have circa the same hardware: * AMD Opteron 250 * Silicon Image 3114 * 300 GB Maxtor SATA Just to add a data point, I've run your test on my RAID 1 (not RAID 5 !) without problems. localhost ~ # dd bs=1024 count=10000k if=/dev/zero of=./10GB.tst 10240000+0 records in 10240000+0 records out localhost ~ # od -t x1 ./10GB.tst 0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 * 116100000000 localhost ~ # uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.12.6-xen #6 SMP Fri Jan 6 06:49:53 CET 2006 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 250 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html