Messages in this thread |  | | From | Markus Gutschke <> | Subject | Re: Problems with large ext2 fs in 2.0 | Date | 16 Sep 1996 14:45:24 +0200 |
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Grant Guenther <grant@torque.net> writes: > The disk is a 2G IDE drive. There's another 1.2 G drive in the system, ^^^ > with a 1G ext2 FS on it that has no problems whatever.
I have notice similar problems with two machines that I had to install. Both of them experienced serious data corruption on IDE drives. This happened both under Linux and Win95, thus I concluded that it was probably a hardware problem. After shortening the flat ribbon cables to about 6in, the problems disappeared.
It seems that the lack of proper termination in the IDE specs causes serious problems at high data rates. Thus, this is one more reason to go for a SCSI based system instead. I never encountered any such problems with my SCSI equipment, even though in one case, the bus is about 18ft long. I make sure though, that I always install active terminators at both ends of the bus!
So long,
Markus
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