Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip
Hi,
I also had problems with the sata_sil driver with more than one
silicon image card in the same machine about a year or two back. Don't
remember the specifics, but basically the cards would occasionally
drop the SATA link. This was with Western Digital drives. With a
Samsung 750GB disk the disk and controller absolutely refused to talk
to each other.
I've since got rid of all but one silicon image card and haven't had
problems since and swapped out cables. Coincidence? No idea.
04:01.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
Currently running kernel 2.6.24-21
Not much fun when disks don't work properly, is it? :-(
T
2009/1/2 Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de>:
> Hello Bengt,
>
> sil3114 is known to cause data corruption with some disks. So far I only know
> about Seagate, but maybe there issues with newer Samsungs as well?
>
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0710.2/2035.html
>
> Unfortuntely this issue has been simply ignored by the SATA developers :(
> So if you want to be on the safe side, go an get another controller.
>
> I hope I won't frighten you too much, but it also might be possible one of
> your disks has a problem, I have also seen a few broken disks, which don't
> return what you write to it...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bernd
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:42:30AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Bengt Samuelsson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need some support for this soft-raid system.
>>>
>>> I am running it as RAID5 with 4 samsung spinpoint 500G SATA300 tot 1.3T byte
>>>
>>> And it runs in http://sm7jqb.dnsalias.com
>>> I use mdadm sytem in a Debian Linux
>>> CPU 1.2Mhz 1G memory ( my older 433Mhz / 512M dont work at all )
>>>
>>> I have 'some courrupt' data. And I don't understand whay and how to fix it.
>>> Mybee slow it down more, but how slow it down?
>>>
>>> Any with experents from this cheep way of RAID systems.
>>>
>>> Ask for more information and I can get it, logs, setup files and what
>>> you want
>>> to know.
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>>
>>> http://sm7jqb.se
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> If this is an mdadm-related raid (not dmraid) please show all relevant md
>> info, mdadm -D /dev/md0, I have cc'd linux-raid on this thread for you.
>>
>> You'll want to read md.txt in /usr/src/linux/Documentation and read on
>> the check and repair commands.
>>
>> In addition, have you run memtest86 on your system first to make sure its
>> not memory related?
>>
>> Justin.
>
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