From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Vogel Subject: Re: SATA_SX4: data corruption with simultaneous writes Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:09:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20041228140947.GA14182@solarsystems.de> References: <20041228134745.GA13912@solarsystems.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from solarsystems.de ([217.160.216.16]:20131 "EHLO solarsystems.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261768AbUL1OJr (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:09:47 -0500 Received: (from chris@solarsystems.de) by solarsystems.de with local (Exim 4.30) id 1CjI2l-0003hD-4s for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:09:47 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041228134745.GA13912@solarsystems.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:47:45PM +0100, Christian Vogel wrote: > I want to report data corruption that is happening here with a > promise sx4 SATA controller during simultaneous writes to four connected > disks, using kernel 2.6.9. (...) > The kernel is compiled with Hyperthreading and Preemtion, furthermore > swapping the sata-controller's RAM did not help. 2.6.10 without preemtion also shows the error. This time I have tried to write to a raid5 partition (4 partitions a 3.5 GB, one on each disk). xfs complains: xfs_iflush: Bad inode 50331795 magic number 0xb00, ptr 0xf214e300 Corruption of in-memory data detected. Shutting down filesystem: md1 but raid (cat /proc/mdstat) does not show any sign of errors... :-( Chris -- Christian Vogel -- chris@solarsystems.de