On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:56:33AM -0400, F. P. Beekhof wrote:

$ sudo setpci -s 18.3 0x44.l
00400040

Interesting, this says ECC is enabled on your machine. Do you know the
exact models of your DIMMs? Sometimes they can be found in dmidecode
output so can you do

dmidecode > dmidecode.out

and

lspci -s 18.3 -xxxx > f3.out

as root and send me both files pls?

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Are there any conclusions that can be drawn from this experiment ?

Yeah, it means that your BIOS doesn't seem to have the fix for erratum
#131: http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf, page 83.

So, this is not a problem with the promise-sata driver as I originally 
suspected. I guess then we can take this discussion off the linux-ide 
list...

Yeah, looks like it.

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