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From: "Jonathan Bell" <doggs.lay.eggs@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Errors when copying between drives on a SiI3114 controller under kernel 2.6.18
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:35:59 +0100
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:13:57 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>  
wrote:

> Ar Llu, 2006-10-23 am 11:22 +0900, ysgrifennodd Tejun Heo:
>> 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.
>
>> From the IDE driver...
>
>  *      If you have strange problems with nVidia chipset systems please
>  *      see the SI support documentation and update your system BIOS
>  *      if neccessary
>
>
> Alan
>


BIOS for the A7N8X is the latest 1008 version which overcomes a boot  
limitation - the board would not boot with more than 1 SATA controller  
installed.

This RAID corruption bug was supposedly fixed in 1005.

Since contacting Asus technical support is likely to be as productive as  
getting blood from a stone, I'm going to go ahead and scrounge another  
motherboard - since this is socket A stuff it should be dirt cheap by now.

Thanks for all the suggestions,
Jonathan