data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?)

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue May 6 11:21:59 PDT 2003


In message <20030506201618.J66653 at daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer writes:
>Hi Poul,
>
>> >more numbers: i typically see 1-2 blocks of corrupted data (32kb is the
>> >size of corrupted data i usually see) on that 60gb disk.
>>
>> I just saw this as well in the stdout+stderr from a make universe :-(
>
>erm... this sounds exciting to me, but i have no clue what you actually
>mean. could you enlighten me ? :)
>
>as i am currently spending heavy thought on investing more money in
>hardware to solve my problem, any hints regarding software-reasons would
>be most appreciated.

I have no clue to software reasons yet, but the fact that I saw something
similar means that you should not rush out to get new hardware just yet.

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