On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:02:30PM +0200, Gilles wrote: > I spoke too quickly :-{ > Seemingly, it was just a short-lived miracle. Now I have these > general protection faults at every compilation attempt, each time > at a different step, and not always for the same program: > > Sep 29 20:11:10 dusk kernel: [31047.241928] rm[11316] general protection > rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7fffff9c0fa0 error:0 > Sep 29 20:21:16 dusk kernel: [31653.305200] mv[32625] general protection > rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7ffffffc1680 error:0 > Sep 29 21:00:50 dusk kernel: [34026.992832] mv[21793] general protection > rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7fffffbc08b0 error:0 > > But for the problem above, I'm stuck. This was suggested (on the AMD > forums) as a possible cause: > > ----- > Also, I (and many others) had horrible experiences with the Silicon Image > controllers on todays motherboards -- if your system begins to use swap > during build and you use SATA drive(s), your paged-out memory may > occasionally be corrupted > ----- > > [I have SATA_sil 3114 (BIOS 5.037) onboard.] > > Also, other people seem to have the similar (?) problems, also with > Tyan Opteron MBs: > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0506.0/0052.html > > > Is there a way to be sure it is, or not, a kernel bug? Or a hardware > failure?
Well I have an sil3112a on my nforce2 board (which of course is an athlon xp not an athlon 64) and I run a WD SATA drive on that and have never seen a problem with it yet. I do know most early seagate sata drives have problems with the sil3112. Of course with 1GB ram I am not sure I ever hit swap at all, so it may not mean much. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]