Re: ICH5-SATA file corruption under 2.4.21-ac1

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:16:34 +0300


On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:56:17AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On an Intel winterpark motherboard I'm seeing file corruption when
> > using the onboard SATA interface. The test I'm running is ctcs's new
> > kdiff test which just copies a kernel, diffs it, deletes the tree, and
> > starts over. (Which seems to find file system issues like this pretty
> > quickly.)
>
> Random bit errors. This really doesn't look like an IDE layer problem
> to be honest.

What is the distribution of the file offsets where those happen ?
Distributions in terms of offset modulo 512/1024/2048/4096 ?

If they are always in the beginning of some sort of block, that is
a tell-tale of its own, isn't it ?

/Matti Aarnio
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