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From: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
To: William Knop <wknop@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: libata badness
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> I just got another oops while trying to cp from my md/raid5 array (2 of 3 
> sata drives) to another sata drive on the same controller. This time, 
> though, it said there's a bug in timer.c, line 405, and that the 
> stack's garbage. I'm thinking it has nothing to do with timer.c, and 
> something in md or libata is chomping all over the kernel.

Or else something else on your system is bad.  Like your CPU or RAM.
Run memtest for a while.

-jim