Re: Disk corruption problem with nVidia motherboard and Silicon Image 680 ATA controller

Jeff Cooper
2005-02-08T15:36:23Z

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