FYI: Promise TX4 silent corruption (RELENG_7)

Peter Schuller peter.schuller at infidyne.com
Mon Oct 22 08:27:18 PDT 2007


> The card seems to be doing naughty things to the PCI bus under load;
> your dmesg ought to be full of PCI timeouts.

No timeouts or errors in dmesg. I expected some, because that is what
I got on another machine (earlier 7-CURRENT) where I was unable to use
SiL/Promise because of such issues. In this case though, it was truly
silent corruption. No indications of errors, or strange performance
characteristics.

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