Re: 5.2RC1 Read+Write data corruption (with SeagateBarracuda ATA V 120G (ST3120023A) + VIA 8237)

From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu_at_apropo.ro>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:03:43 +0200
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:59:35 +0100 (CET)
Soren Schmidt <sos_at_spider.deepcore.dk> wrote:

> It seems Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:36:44 +0100 (CET)
> > Soren Schmidt <sos_at_spider.deepcore.dk> wrote:
> > 
> > > It seems Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > > atapci0: <VIA 82C686B UDMA100 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on pci0
> > > > atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug
> > > 
> > > This piece of bugridden silicon might very well be the cause of all
> > > your problems...
> > 
> > I know that mainboard is a crap and that is the reason it is used for
> > our secretary solitaire and stuff like that :). 
> > 
> > But then why does it happend on my Gigabyte MB ? It is an outher cipset.
> 
> Hmm, there has been some trouble with a certain model of Seagate 40G
> drives (bad firmware) so that might be something you could look into,
> otherwise I have no idea...

I have the feeling that the drive is not addresed properly; this seems
to be partition size dependent and / or place from the begining of the
disk where the partition is.

Supposing I want to debug this problem, could you sugest some place to
start ?


Thanks.

-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 06:03:15 UTC

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