Re: sil3114 data corruption

[Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de>]

On Monday 08 October 2007 17:09:17 Bernd Schubert wrote:
> [sorry for sending twice, but after I read the sil sources, I see the mail
> address had been wrong]
>
> Hi,
>
> somehow the sil3114 causes data corruption with some (newer?) disks. Simply
> filling the filesystem with zeros and reading the these data will make the
> kernel to report filesystem corruption.
> This is definitely not an issue of memory, since the systems (several
> tested) do have ECC memory and the memory is monitored with EDAC.
>
> kernel versions tested: 2.6.15-2.6.20

Update: Setting sata_sil.slow_down=1 fill fix the problem, seems there are 
some drives missing in the quirk table.

Jeff, I found an old patch/workaround from you 
(http://uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.1/1957.html), can you 
give me any further information why this never went into the driver?

Thanks,
Bernd

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