Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 22:22 +0100, Daniel Koch wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.11.10-1 > Severity: critical > Justification: causes serious data loss > > Dear Maintainer, > > As mentioned here > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/hard-drive-corruption-with-asm1062-sata-controller-4175469744/ by somebody else using the ASMedia in AHCI-Mode causes serious data corruption. Almost every mainboard should be configured using AHCI by default which makes this bug critical. > > I am currently facing this bug on my own. I replaced the mainboard in > my NAS with an ASRock Z77 Pro4-M which has two SATA Ports using the > asm1060 controller and was configured to use AHCI by the manufacture. > After replacing the device i booted the system and everything looked > fine. Some hours later i noticed the data corruption on the > ext4-filesystem and i had to run fscks which took very long. The > linux-raid device stores 12 TB and the system has 4 GB RAM which > caused fsck to stop with " cannot allocate memory " so i had to > started it again and again. I noticed that fsck was fixing the same > inodes several timesy. After finding the threat on linuxquestions.org > i set ACHI to IDE and fsck is now going forward and stopped to fix the > same inodes again and again which makes me belive that the corruption > has stopped. > Also i wrote files with the same content and created sha1sums of them > which do match . I dont want to check if the would differ when using > AHCI. [...] Did the kernel log any I/O error messages (not from ext4) while writing through the ASRock controller in AHCI mode? Do you have a single hard drive connected to each port or are you using a port multiplier? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.
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