From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: regarding bug #5914 - fs corruption on SATA Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:58:02 -0500 Message-ID: <43D8FF9A.4020805@pobox.com> References: <20060126055050.GA4737@htj.dyndns.org> <43D8FBBD.6070205@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:46261 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317AbWAZQ6m (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:58:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <43D8FBBD.6070205@dgreaves.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: David Greaves Cc: Tejun Heo , Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net, Jens Axboe , Linux-ide , Christopher Smith , Erik Slagter , hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca, mlaks@verizon.net, Soeren Sonnenburg , mlaks@verizononline.net David Greaves wrote: > Have a look for subjects such as > Problems with multiple Promise SATA150 TX4 cards This is almost certainly either a power or PCI bus/slot issue. > Possible libata/sata/Asus problem (was Re: Need to upgrade to latest > stable mdadm version?) Highly likely to be a motherboard/BIOS issue related to properly tuning and timing the hardware. HOWEVER, libata can help (via Tejun's recent patches) by properly handling the error when throw to us by hardware. Jeff