On Sat, 2006-12-02 17:17:37, Kurtis D. Rader wrote: > I'm also experiencing silent data corruption on writes to SATA disks > connected to a Nvidia controller (nForce 4 chipset). The problem is > 100% reproducible. Details of my configuration (mainboard model, lspci, > etc.) are near the bottom of this message. What follows is a summation > of my findings.
Various suggestions (e.g., booting with "acpi=off") have either not helped or have resulted in a system which won't boot. Today I replaced the ASUS A8N (nVidia nForce 4 chipset) mainboard and AMD Athlon 64 CPU with a Intel DP965LT (Intel 965 chipset) and E6600 Duo Core 2 CPU. The SATA disks and cables are unchanged. The case, power supply, and video card are also unchanged. Not one of the previous tests now results in corruption. If anyone (e.g., a nVidia employee) wants to pursue this and can provide a meaningful action plan I'll be happy to install the problem components in another case and attempt to gather additional diagnostic data. -- Kurtis D. Rader, Linux level 3 support email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Integrated Technology Services DID: +1 503-578-3714 15300 SW Koll Pkwy, MS RHE2-O2 service: 800-IBM-SERV Beaverton, OR 97006-6063 http://www.ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/