Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-11 Thread 7091
Tejun Heo writes: Please give a shot at the attached patch on top of 2.6.22. Thanks. Patch applied, but still getting the corruption. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-04 Thread 7091
Andi Kleen writes: If it has 2GB or so it might be worth trying booting it with mem=2G Nope, only 1GB of RAM. Most likely it is some sort of hardware bug that we might not be able to do much about. Have you tried contacting SIL or VIA? No, I haven't. Like I mentioned above, the OpenBSD

Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-04 Thread 7091
Alan Cox writes: Not suprised to be honest. We have a large number of reports that are all of the following form Nvidia chipset, Silicon Image SATA, corruption and several reports that BIOS updates fixed it. Unfortunately we don't know what the BIOS updates do (or indeed if what they do

sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-03 Thread 7091
Greetings, I have been troubleshooting a problem for over a year now, and to make a long story short, I think the sata_sil driver has a bug during writing when there are multiple cards that are using different models of SiI chips in the system. I will be watching the list, although cc'ing me

Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-03 Thread 7091
Tejun Heo writes: Sounds awfully similar to the recent nvidia data corruption issue. It was involving the IOMMU and one of the workarounds was not using IOMMU, IIRC. Please turn off IOMMU and see what happens. You can turn IOMMU off by passing iommu=off as kernel parameter. -- tejun

Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-03 Thread 7091
Tejun Heo writes: Sounds awfully similar to the recent nvidia data corruption issue. It was involving the IOMMU and one of the workarounds was not using IOMMU, IIRC. Please turn off IOMMU and see what happens. You can turn IOMMU off by passing iommu=off as kernel parameter. -- tejun

Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-03 Thread 7091
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tejun Heo writes: Sounds awfully similar to the recent nvidia data corruption issue. It was involving the IOMMU and one of the workarounds was not using IOMMU, IIRC. Please turn off IOMMU and see what happens. You can turn IOMMU off by passing iommu=off as kernel

Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-03 Thread 7091
Apologies for the chain-replying to myself, just replying as I think of things to try. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's an odd data point. I just broke that array, formatted all three of those partitions seperately, mounted and did my ISO copy test. All three drives, run one at a