misc/77163: File cache gets corrupted, system randomly hangs, sometimes with disk corruption

[Yuri]

The following reply was made to PR kern/77163; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yuri <yuri at tsoft.com>
To: David Malone <dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/77163: File cache gets corrupted, system randomly hangs,
 sometimes with disk corruption
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:26:39 -0800

 >We saw a problem like this once and it was the disk controler fault,
 >sometimes it wouldn't finish the DMA of data into memory.
 >
 >	David.
 >  
 >
 I upgraded BIOS and problem seems to be gone.
 
 Just for the record: Motherboard MSI: MS-6702, BIOS was v.1.0, upgraded 
 to v.2.0, has Promise SATA controller by Marvell.
 
 Thank you!
 Yuri