Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:16:34 +0300
From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl
Subject: Re: ICH5-SATA file corruption under 2.4.21-ac1
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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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