Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matt Schulkind" <> | Subject | Re: HPT370 (KT7A-RAID) *corrupts* data - SAMSUNG SV8004H does it as well | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:19:22 -0500 |
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> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:34:00AM +0100, you [Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de] claimed: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:58:03AM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > > > - how come anyone else is not seeing this corruption (Abit KT7A, nevermind > > > HPT370 is fairly popular)? > > > > A friend of mine had an IBM DLTA drive attached to his HPT370 > > controller, and this combination proved to produce a whole lot of drive > > errors (I can confirm this first hand), which went away after attaching > > the drive to the main motherboard controller. > > I can't say anything about data corruption though - I just asked him and > > he said he didn't know of any, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. > > Of course the drive is longer attached to HPT370 and your friend is propably > reluctant to reattach it, but it would still be nice to know if he gets > consistent results which for example this simple test: > > cat /dev/hde | mdsum > > run for several (5-10, perhaps) times. > > OTOH, I haven't had corruption with reading only > one disk at a time, but then again I haven't tried too hard as they > should really work in parallel. > > > -- v -- > > v@iki.fi > -
In my experience, the HPT370 chipset likes corrupting harddrives. When I was using it, I had the PCI Raid version and it kept corrupting my hard drives. I tried updating the BIOS, but the bios program locked up and completly killed my board. When I RMAed the board, the new BIOS was put on for me and after that I ahven't had a single problem. Maybe you should try upgrading the BIOS, but I don't know if you can for an onboard version.
-Matt Schulkind
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