Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10?

Gabor Lenart (lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:14:20 +0200

On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 03:52:46PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If I copy a large (650Mb) file to a different filename, then perform a
> > compare on them, I encounter random, different miscompares. I've seen
> > this on several 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 systems.
>
> Ok people is this
>
> SCSI or IDE (or a mix)
> What compiler was used

I had got similar problem ... It was casued by "unofficial" PCI clock
using with UDMA. UDMA is VERY PCI clock speed, cable goodness etc etc
sensitive according my experiences. (But using PIO modes can produce
straneg things to with some broken cable, chipsets ...)

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