Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751147AbWIAWnH (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:43:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751161AbWIAWnH (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:43:07 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:41424 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751154AbWIAWnF (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:43:05 -0400 Subject: Re: File corruption with 2940U2 SCSI card and aic7xxx driver. From: Alan Cox To: Ethan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:05:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1157151927.6271.341.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 23 Ar Gwe, 2006-09-01 am 09:05 -0700, ysgrifennodd Ethan: > detected and identified by the kernel at boot. Unfortunately, I am > experiencing consistent corruption on large files written to the SCSI > drives. For example, if I copy a file from the old, stable IDE drive > to one of the SCSI disks using dd: Does this still occur with a more recent upstream kernel ? There are also known AHA2940 incompatibilities with a few boards. People always had problems with CUV4X* boards for one. Bit early to assume its the board however it might be worth making sure the card is well seated and the cabling looks good. That said I'd expect parity errors.. -- VGER BF report: H 0.215243 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/