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Message-Id: <1166139576.3307.20.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:39:36 -0700 From: Dax Kelson <dax@...ulabs.com> To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@...entia.net> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?! On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 01:56 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Perhaps some of you have read my older two threads: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116312440000001&r=1&w=2 and the even > older http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116291314500001&r=1&w=2 > > The issue was basically the following: > I found a severe bug mainly by fortune because it occurs very rarely. > My test looks like the following: I have about 30GB of testing data on > my harddisk,... I repeat verifying sha512 sums on these files and check > if errors occur. > One test pass verifies the 30GB 50 times,... about one to four > differences are found in each pass. This sounds very similar to a corruption issue I was experiencing on my nforce4 based system. After replacing most of my hardware to no avail, I discovered that if increased the voltage for my RAM chips the corruption went away. Note that I was not overclocking at all. Worth a try. Dax Kelson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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