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[Florin <hatespam00-mlist@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Silviu,


You'll find quite a few if you google for "sata_nv" and "scsi parity error"

There are problems with VIA chipsets as well but at least on my home computer (with VIA) the sata drive is loaded as an IDE and I can use ide=nodma to get around the issue - the HDD access won't be very fast but at least it works without lockups.

This is not the case however with nForce 250 chipset where ide=nodma is "invalid" and thus ignored. Haven't tried with other nVidia chipsets though.

Strangely enough that SLES 9 will work OK as long as DMA is disabled ...

Regards (aka numa cele bune :-)
Florin



----- Original Message ----
From: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 1:35:41 PM
Subject: Re: [SLE] Workaroud for a SATA nForce 250 SCSI Parity Error  problem

On Friday 26 May 2006 13:56, hatespam00-mlist@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> mount existing Linux partitions, I can see on the logger that infamous
> “SCSI Parity Error”, “device busy”, timeout and I/O errors while accessing
> the hard drive. And the only way out is to use the POWER RESET button.

Where do I found more info on these infamous errors?

I think the same bug has bit me.

nforce 350 + maxtor drives  = > drive failures, lots of bad sectors etc.

Should they work on a different chipset than nvidia?

One of those failed drives has very precious data on it.  It's part on a RAID1 
mirror.  The other disk died completely.


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