Re: Errors when copying between drives on a SiI3114 controller under kernel 2.6.18

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Jonathan Bell wrote:
> This is where it gets wierd... I may have uncovered a BIOS bug.
> 
> I changed the mainboard out as a last-ditch attempt to get this working 
> and BEHOLD! The drives work perfectly. I swapped the A7N8X-D out for an 
> Abit NF7-M (same nForce2 chipset, with the exception of onboard 
> graphics) and used the same hardware as before.
> 
> This NF7-M is on loan to me so I cannot use it indefinitely. Any ideas, 
> Tejun?
> 
> Worst comes to worst I can buy an old nForce2 board for a minor sum off 
> eBay.

I guess it could be a PCI bus problem.  Maybe the controller and the PCI 
bus on the board don't like each other and thing get corrupt when 
transactions occur at high speed.  I've seen data corruption over PCI 
bus on some pilot embedded system board.  Not sure whether such things 
are applicable to consumer products.

I dunno.  Simply changing the motherboard or the controller might be the 
best solution for you.  Considering the large deployment of 
3112/3152/3114 controllers, it's hard to believe your problem is 
software bug.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun