Hello, list, I have a little note for this.
About 1 - 1.5 years before i have the same problem. I have 4 server, each has 3 sata sil card, and 2 of 4 servers freezed in the first time during the raid5 resyncing! After restart, the box kicked 2 hdd-s from the array, that are on the same card. I try to replace the card to the new one, nothing is chancged, the resync stopped again. I try to swap over the 2x3 card on the 2 server, and nothing is changed! When i try to read the strip (raid5) all works fine. But if i try to write a large amount of data, these two box freezed. (or rebooted, i can't remember now) Finally i buy promise cards to all box, and all problem is gone. :-) The problem is true, exists, and looks like in the driver. (or workaround of hardware problem?) Cheers, Janos Haar ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:36 PM Subject: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards? > 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 over email will be useful > for speeding up replies. > > Longer version: > I've been having problems with my Linux server corrupting data. Not just a > little - it can't copy a 700 meg ISO file and end up with the same checksum > (and usually corrupts the filesystem in the process). > > Hardware: > Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. This has 2 parallel IDE connectors, each > with a 40 gig IDE HD hanging off it, and 2 SATA connectors (driven by a SiI > 3112 chip) with (right now) 1 300G SATA HD and 1 250G SATA HD. All of these > facts are important. > > On my PCI bus, I have a SiI 3114A card with 3 more 300G SATA HDs. It should > be noted that only drives on the PCI card have corruption. Neither the > parallel IDE HDs, nor the SATA drives on the motherboard experience the > problem. I have also tried replacing this card, which did not fix the > problem. Also, placing the same drive on the add-on card has corruption, > the same drive, cable, power, etc. on the motherboard works fine. > > I've already swapped motherboards, CPU, and RAM. > > Booting to a Knoppix 5.1 CD shows the same problems. > > Reading is fine (i.e. I can read the same file 50 times and get the same > md5sum). Writing causes the corruption. > > The corruption happens no matter what filesystem I try (ext2, ext3, reiser, > xfs). (This does mean I've reformatted, etc. several times, so its not a > metadata problem) > > This happens with at least 3 different drives (the 300 and the 250, > different manufacturers), with different SATA data cables, power supplies, > power cables, etc. > > Now, here's the kicker. Booting to an OpenBSD kernel, and using one of the > 300G drives off the 3114A card (the one that show corruption under Linux) > works fine. > > This happens with the Knoppix 5.1 kernel (2.6.19), my own compiled 2.6.20.3, > and Debian kernel 2.6.18-4-k7. > > More spammy data: > # lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) > (rev a2) > 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) > 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) > 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) > 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) > 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) > 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a3) > 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2) > 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3) > 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3) > 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3) > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller > (rev a1) > 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3) > 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) > 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 PCI Bridge (rev a3) > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2) > 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2164W > [Millennium II] > 01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) > 01:09.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) > 01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) > 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast > Ethernet Controller [Tornado] (rev 40) > > Any assistance, input, etc. appreciated. 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