Potential Data Corruption Problem on Tyan Thunder MBs?

wezelboy asks: "I need independent verification of a data corruption problem with the Tyan Thunder LE mobo during DMA writes to an IDE drive. The problem manifests itself under heavy disk load in large files, does not change file size, and only corrupts 4 byte chunks. Thus, it is not easily spotted. We are running Red Hat 7.1, but this corruption may be reproducible on other operating systems." There's more detail of this problem in the article. Any of you Tyan Thunder motherboard owners care to help track this problem down?

"A simple way to verify this problem follows:

Using a Red Hat 7.1 install (2.4.2 kernel, but other 2.4 kernels exhibit this problem) and a file /tmp/x that is over 500MB in size, "cp /tmp/x /tmp/y", and compare the md5 checksums using md5sum. Keep doing this, deleting /tmp/y each time before you do.

/tmp/x and /tmp/y will continuously show the same size, but will sometimes have different md5 checksums. A diff between the files usually shows that 4 bytes are moved to another part of the file. You may have to go through a number of iterations before you see it. We have a more sophisticated test script available, just e-mail me at here and I'll send it to you.

Tyan claims that this problem is a limitation of the Serverworks LE chipset, however I have not been able to reproduce this problem on any of the Asus CUR-DLS motherboards (which use the same chipset!).

If anyone can reproduce this problem on a different Serverworks LE mobo, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks!"