From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261500AbVBHPgX (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:36:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261542AbVBHPgX (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:36:23 -0500 Received: from 66-162-60-3.gen.twtelecom.net ([66.162.60.3]:15264 "EHLO lpdsrv13.logicpd.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261500AbVBHPgU (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:36:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4208DC72.8010401@visi.com> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:36:18 -0600 From: Jeff Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Disk corruption problem with nVidia motherboard and Silicon Image 680 ATA controller References: <3vlXO-27l-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <3vmhl-2kt-33@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <3vmhl-2kt-33@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Feb 2005 15:36:19.0294 (UTC) FILETIME=[EF4CF7E0:01C50DF3] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Jeff Cooper schrieb: > >> I'm running a Gentoo system with a 2.6.10-r6 kernel. This is the >> gentoo-dev-sources ebuild. My motherboard is a Asus A7N8X with an >> nForce2 nVidia chipset. The system has five 40 gig hard drives, all set >> >> >> Thanks for any advice anyone can offer! > > > Search in bios for ext-p2p discard time and set it to a higher value, at > least > 1ms. I alrealdy reported this to lkml but there apperantly is no > interest in > implementing a kernel quirk. > Well I checkd my BIOS and it doesn't have the ability to adjust that option. There are no new updates for the BIOS of my motherboard or the SIIG ATA controllers. Is this a SATA option? I only have PATA drives in my system. Does anyone else have any other suggestions? thanks, Jeff