Re: Possible data corruption sata_sil24?

2007-07-19 Thread Tejun Heo
David Shaw wrote: I'm not sure whether this is problem of sata_sil24 or dm layer. Cc'ing linux-raid for help. How much memory do you have? One big difference between ata_piix and sata_sil24 is that sil24 can handle 64bit DMA. Maybe dma mapping or something interacts weirdly with dm there?

Re: Possible data corruption sata_sil24?

2007-07-18 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:53:39PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: David Shaw wrote: It fails whether I use a raw /dev/sdd or partition it into one large /dev/sdd1, or partition into multiple partitions. sata_sil24 seems to work by itself, as does dm, but as soon as I mix sata_sil24+dm, I get

Re: Possible data corruption sata_sil24?

2007-07-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, David Shaw wrote: Starting with two 500GB SATA drives (interface card uses a Silicon 3124 chipset), /dev/sdd and /dev/sde. I partitioned each into two 250GB chunks (250*1000*1000*1000, not 250*1024*1024*1024), and set up two RAID 1 sets such that /dev/md0 is /dev/sdd1+/dev/sde1 and

Re: Possible data corruption sata_sil24?

2007-07-13 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 04:34:06PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: It fails whether I use a raw /dev/sdd or partition it into one large /dev/sdd1, or partition into multiple partitions. sata_sil24 seems to work by itself, as does dm, but as soon as I mix sata_sil24+dm, I get corruption.

Re: Possible data corruption sata_sil24?

2007-07-12 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:28:32AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, David Shaw wrote: I'm having a problem with data corruption using devmapper on a SATA disk using sata_sil24. I've done some work tracking it down, and hopefully you folks can point me further in the right direction.

Re: Possible data corruption sata_sil24?

2007-07-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, David Shaw wrote: I'm having a problem with data corruption using devmapper on a SATA disk using sata_sil24. I've done some work tracking it down, and hopefully you folks can point me further in the right direction. The kernel I'm using is 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 (i.e. Fedora 7). LVM2 is

Possible data corruption sata_sil24?

2007-07-05 Thread David Shaw
Hi everyone, I'm having a problem with data corruption using devmapper on a SATA disk using sata_sil24. I've done some work tracking it down, and hopefully you folks can point me further in the right direction. The kernel I'm using is 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 (i.e. Fedora 7). LVM2 is