Vladimir Dergachev
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Benson Chow wrote:
> I had problems similar to this a while back, when I copied large files
> from partition to partition, it would corrupt. I finally was able to
> track it down to my IDE controllers (HD and CDROM) - because NFS copies
> to/from SCSI was fine. That machine was a single CPU Pentium Pro on a
> PIIX3 motherboard (Venus). I figured it was a bad motherboard because
> Windows had Silent Data Corruption as well. But funny it never
> corrupted the superblock or directories or such, just the middle of
> large files...
>
> I've since "upgraded" to a PIIX4/Celeron(SMP) system, and so far, in
> 2.2.9, I haven't had any problems (yet) with files that turn out different
> on copy, even large files... I'll have to try it some more once I get my
> bios fixed from a bad flash ... *sigh* (though my laptop hasn't had any
> problems with 2.2.9 yet.)
>
> -bc
>
> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Philip Gladstone wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > ron flory wrote:
> > >
> > > > We are getting strange disk corruptions on 2.2.9 -- well actually I
> > > > think that they are buffer cache corruptions. The odd bit gets
> > > > flipped in files....
> > >
> > > This agress with problems I've been chasing for a few days now...
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Ahah -- when I try this with a 120MB file, I get non-random miscompares!
> >
> [snip]
>
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/