:
:It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote:
:> >     So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy
:> >     IDE workloads:  Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot
:> >     output.
:
:> atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on 
:
:You have the VIA 82c686b southbridge chip which is known to cause severe
:data corruption problems if the BIOS does not setup the northbidge
:chip correctly. Please check with your board vendor if they have a
:new updated BIOS that fixes this problem. This is not an ATA specific
:problem, but a problem with the PCI subsystem in general on these
:chips that manifests it self on high PCI load (which the ATA subsytem
:is quite capable of delivering)...
:
:A fix for this is present in -current, and if I get permission from 
:the RE, it will go into 4.5 also, but a BIOS fix is by far the right
:way to fix this problem.
:
:-Søren

    Soren, if you post a patch for 4.x I will be happy to follow-up 
    with Brady.  I've been working with Brady for several days now trying 
    to track down corruption in the vm_page array.  I *really* want to know
    if a VIA chipset patch solves his problem, because it would
    also explain about a dozen similar bug reports over the last 6 months.
    (Which would also be good backing to get it into 4.5).

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
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