On Wednesday 10 April 2002 21:21, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: <snip> >This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb >file from the file system on computer A to the file >system on computer B by the program cp on the PC >running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2 >file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence). > > Ist this problem caused by > (a) the VIA chipset? > (b) the AMD processor? > (c) the UDMA setting? > (d) the IDE driver? > (e) the ext2/ext3 FS? > (f) the NFS system? > (g) or something else?
My experiences on my system: a, c and g. g for buggy ide controller on motherboard (belongs actually to category a). BIOS update helped a little, still random corruption occurs especially when copying from CD-ROM to HD. So to be sure when copying files around I switch DMA off. I've noticed that combination of WD disk and VIA chipset is lethal. When the hardware is piece of crap, even Linux can't save your ass. Advice for people buing new HW: if it's cheap (in price), think again if you can afford it! And to make your decision easier remember that exceptions make the rule. ;) I've been considering IDE or SCSI controller (to PCI-bus), could someone tell if it's a solution to my problems or does the buggy mobo chipset affect the PCI-bus too? Cheers, J. > > We have the advantage that we know how to > produce the corruption? > > -- Bjarne Thomsen
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