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From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0701.3/0315.html
>
> I have similar issues as this poster-- I was wondering (if anyone) had an 
> idea to the root cause of this issue; is it a problem with the chipset, the 
> BIOS revision?
>
> Mobo: Intel DG965WHMKR
> BIOS: 1666
>
> Is it only Intel Chipsets that suffer from this problem?
>
> ... or is it a way the kernel handles ACPI/IO-APIC/etc?
>
> Justin.
>

p34:~# /usr/bin/time badblocks -b 512 -s -v -w /dev/sdl
Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
>>From block 0 to 293046768
Testing with pattern 0xaa: done
Reading and comparing: done
Testing with pattern 0x55: done
Reading and comparing: done
Testing with pattern 0xff: done
Reading and comparing: done
Testing with pattern 0x00: done
Reading and comparing: done
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found.
1929.06user 467.89system 4:36:23elapsed 14%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (1major+257minor)pagefaults 0swaps
p34:~#

Not a single bad block found.  Does the ICH8 chipset have issues, or the
cards I am using and how they are routed?

Any suggestions as to what this is?

Justin.