From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: 7091@blargh.com
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:51:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468A0E24.7020000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <courier.4689EFD9.0000589A@blargh.com>
7091@blargh.com wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have been troubleshooting a problem for over a year now, and to make a
> long story short, I think the sata_sil driver has a bug during writing when
> there are multiple cards that are using different models of SiI chips in
> the
> system.
> I will be watching the list, although cc'ing me over email will be useful
> for speeding up replies.
> Longer version:
> I've been having problems with my Linux server corrupting data. Not just a
> little - it can't copy a 700 meg ISO file and end up with the same checksum
> (and usually corrupts the filesystem in the process).
> Hardware:
> Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. This has 2 parallel IDE connectors, each
> with a 40 gig IDE HD hanging off it, and 2 SATA connectors (driven by a SiI
> 3112 chip) with (right now) 1 300G SATA HD and 1 250G SATA HD. All of
Sounds awfully similar to the recent nvidia data corruption issue. It
was involving the IOMMU and one of the workarounds was not using IOMMU,
IIRC. Please turn off IOMMU and see what happens. You can turn IOMMU
off by passing "iommu=off" as kernel parameter.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 6:42 sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards? 7091
2007-07-03 8:51 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-07-04 1:40 ` 7091
2007-07-04 1:48 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04 2:05 ` 7091
2007-07-04 3:22 ` 7091
2007-07-04 3:44 ` 7091
2007-07-04 3:53 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04 7:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-04 8:17 ` 7091
2007-07-04 8:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-04 8:52 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-10 10:55 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-12 3:21 ` 7091
2007-07-04 3:41 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04 9:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04 9:14 ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04 9:26 ` 7091
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