On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Twigathy <twigathy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is somewhat offtopic; bear with me, someone may be able to help! > I posted a short while back that I'd suffered quite a large data loss > with mdadm and a handful of SATA disks, it looks like it was caused by > a bug in the sata_sil driver as there is stuff posted here: > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/0024.html as well > as a bug on Ubuntu's launchpad site: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/208551 > > I'm no kernel hacker, and I have not found much more evidence to > support the fact it's a bug other than I can reproduce the failure > pretty consistently (6 hard disks over 3 PCI sil 3512 based SATA > cards). I've just ordered a new motherboard, CPU etc. for the > fileserver in question and can test things a bit more thoroughly once > they appear and I have time to swap out the guts of my current > machine. Does anyone know how I'd go about even starting to help fix > this sata_sil maybe-bug, or indeed if a fix has already been committed > to the kernel, or at least how to help track it down? > What kernel version are you able to reproduce the problem? -- Dan -- 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
