3ware Raid controllers and 64bit Etch

Dear List,

I have been having data corruption problems for the last two months on 7 servers.

After extensive testing, I have finally narrowed the problem down to Debian Etch 2.6.18-5 kernel
with the 3ware PCI controller. The same machine using the onboard SATA controller does not
corrupt data.

The machines would also hang occasionally - no errors displayed on screen.

I upgraded to a 2.6.23-13 kernel.org kernel 24 hours ago, and have not been able to reproduce
these problems since then - Previously it would take about 10 minutes for the problem to appear.

I could reproduce these problems by using a java program to insert logs (30,000,000 records)
into a local postgres 8.2.5 database -

After this I would see

        "DETAIL: Could not open file "pg_clog/0495": No such file or directory."
type messages in my postgres logs.

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I had also managed to corrupt my SVN repository - md5s of the files no longer matched
what was in the SVN database... (svnadmin verfify /path/to/repository)

Has anyone seen these problems?

Below - details as to my raid controller.

Regards

Andrew

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03:05.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 7xxx/8xxx-series PATA/SATA-RAID  
(rev 01)
	Subsystem: 3ware Inc 7xxx/8xxx-series PATA/SATA-RAID
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-  
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-  

<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

	Latency: 64 (2250ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
	Region 0: I/O ports at e800 [size=16]
	Region 1: Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
	Region 2: Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
	Expansion ROM at f0100000 [disabled] [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA  
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

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