Neil Brown schrieb: > On Wednesday December 22, kreide@online.no wrote: > >>I am running kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 on an Athlon XP 2400+ computer with a SiI >>3114 SATA controller hosting 4 WD2500JD-00G drives. I have combined these >>drives into a raid5 array using software raid, but unfortunately the array is >>not stable. I have tried several filesystems (ext3, reiserfs, xfs), but after >>copying several gigabytes of data into the array (using scp) and then trying >>to read them back (using rsync to compare over the network) always results in >>data corruption. Here is the output from 'dmesg': >> >>kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:813! Have you a bios option called ext-p2p discard time? Try setting it higher. I posted another thread about sii3112 at lkml about this issue... Prakash