linux-kernel - Re: Data corruption

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Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:47:46 +0200
From:	"Wander Winkelhorst" <w.winkelhorst@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Data corruption

On 8/8/07, paul <paul.pinault@...k91.com> wrote:
>  Hi, thank you for your answer, actually I removed 2Gb of physical memory and
> the problem gone away .. but my system needs 4Gb.
>
> I reproduce it under Xen and without xen (on a standard kernel) I can't tell
>  you how mutch difference I have betwwen files, regarding a 4 month system
> running on these condition, I think the number of errors are rare but
> existing, during my tests with 100M files I did not get a lot of error, so we
> can assume 2 or 3 bytes in error in 300M files... (expectation)
>
> I try to avaoid it by disabeling memory relocation on my MB ... in that case
> the system only detect 2.8G (and Linux too), The probem still there.

Do you have the latest BIOS of your motherboard?
The latest version is 0901 and that version fixes:

"Fix memory remapping function is not working properly issue."

Download from:
http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?product=1&model=P5B-VM&SLanguage=en-us

Hope that helps,

Wander.
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