Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.10 Distribution: Kernel 2.6.18 from kernel.org Ubuntu 5.10/6.06/6.10 SuSE 9.3/10.0/10.1 Fedora Core 4 Hardware Environment: Shuttle XPC SN85Gv2 Motherboard FN85 NVIDIA nForce3 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3512 (rev 1) Harddisk Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG SP1614C Rev: SW10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Software Environment: Problem Description: Writing data on a SATA drive sometimes (5 - 10%) failed. Files have the right size but differ in their md5 checksums. Older kernel versions work fine (2.6.10). The problems still occurs in the kernel version 2.6.18 from kernel.org (Linux linux 2.6.18 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 3 16:58:22 CEST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux) I changed memory and harddisk (including cable). Steps to reproduce: copy same 100MB file some times and calculating checksum.
See also 6845 for another Nvidia + silicon image corruption example, but not sure if they are the same root cause yet
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6845 ***