Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:07:25 -0700 | From | Jon Burgess <> | Subject | Re: more NCR53c8xx ext2 problems. |
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To test for these kind of problems I would try producing a large datafile, maybe a dd from /dev/urandom of 20M or so. A size is needed which is greater than any caching that may occur. Then run a loop creating a checksum over and over again for the data - they should be the same on every run. If not then you know that you've got a communications problem somewhere. md5sum is a very good checksum program that does exactly what you want. It allows you to generate a checksmu and then check a file against it for integrity, a simple while(1) loop in your shell should keep the test running for a while.
I've got a script somewhere that does this, but i'm not on-line with Linux at the moment. Pity.
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