Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:58:09 +0000 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add warning notes for known quirkly ata chipsets Message-ID: <200603072058.UAA16737@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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> I don't know any others offhand Word is that nforce4 plus Maxtor or Hitachi disks gives data corruption. Nforce4 plus Seagate is said to be okay. http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t8171.html I have nforce4-ultra with 4 Seagate 7200.8 SATA drives and have not observed any data corruption. I have have copied many multi-GB files from one disk to another, and afterwards cmp(1) says they are identical. I picked the nforce4-ultra because the other AMD64 chipsets did not have NCQ. I have not had any problems with the nf4 chipset. (But then I don't have any Maxtor or Hitachi disks hooked to it.) On the other hand, I *have* seen data problems with a Maxtor PATA drive on NetBSD/alpha (not a nforce4 chipset, obviously). Read the same sector three times and get three different results.
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