Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:15:23 +0200 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: File Corruption |
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Hi!
> Linux corrupts files when writing them to disk.
Is it repeatable? Does it do it always on any 512-bytes file?
> I have a Triton III mainboard (i430VX chipset) with iPentium 200, > 512k SRAM cache, and a DIMM 32Mb SDRAM chip. > > It seems that it's a hardware flaw, but win95 doesn't present > any problem. > > I already disabled the external cache, used an ISA IDE card, > tried different hard disks, linux distributions, different kernels > (1.2.13, 2.0.27, etc.), and the corruption remains.
Strange... Try to - disable l2 cache, use only 4Meg of memory - use that isa ide card - make sure you _DON'T_ use hdparm (better rm it from your computer ;-)
> Could anybody tell me weather it's a kernel problem or > if I am using broken or unsupported hardware? Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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