Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:23:30 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [2.3.99pre2] [CORRUPTION] Doh! Corruption problems again... |
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PLease repeat on SCSI-SCSI, SCSI-IDE and IDE-SCSI. There has been nothing in the driver that has change as it relates to IO. I want to know if it is true for the subsystem or of it is changes in the ./fs/* code.........
ATA has 512-byte block sizes.
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Simon Kirby wrote:
> Well, after happily copying about 25 GB worth of data between IDE drives > with 2.3.99pre2(non-prepre) thinking that 2.3 had all corruption problems > fixed, I found that I was mistaken. :) > > This time it seems to be different than before...Corruption is starting > on non-1024-byte aligned boundaries, which is strange. > > Attached are two text files (gzipped to reduce size), the first is the > original and the second is the one is the corrupted one (overwritten with > kernel data). Hmm...I wonder why I always see things overwritten with > kernel data...I must have a lot of copies of the kernel. :) > > I'll do some more filesystem thrashing and see if I can reproduce it > easily as before, and if so, I'll do some binary searching again... > > Simon- > > [ Stormix Technologies Inc. ][ NetNation Communcations Inc. ] > [ sim@stormix.com ][ sim@netnation.com ] > [ Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employers. ] >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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