Re: Data corruption during read on VIA vt8235

Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-06T22:43:49Z

On Friday 05 March 2004 23:03, Marcin Garski wrote:
> [Please CC me on replies, I am not subscribed to the list, thanks]
> Hi,
>
> I've Soltek SL-75FRV mainboard (VIA KT400 and vt8235 chipsets).
> Also i've two IDE disk both runing on UDMA(100) (DMA enabled).
> I'm using 2.4.22 kernel from Fedora Core 1 + patch for XFS suppport.
>
> Several checking md5 sum of big file (650MB) give different results
> (e.g: first, second and third* *file check give good md5 sum, but fourth
> check give bad sum).
> Also if i copy big file through network (ethernet), file have bits
> difference, the same
> thing happen during file copy (also big file) betwen two disks.
> Usually there are from 1 to 3 differneces in file, each difference is
> one bit (e.g good file - 4B, bad file - 4A).

If md5sum fails, those too will fail.

> That is not a memory problem because memtest86 shows no errors.
>
> I found some old message:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.0/0914.html
> where author had similar problem to mine.
>
> Could you give me some hints how to more deeply diagnose this problem.

Does it happen with UDMA66? UDMA33? etc
Kernel .config?
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