On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:08:42AM -0400, Robert Connolly wrote: > > I have two guesses. Both of these drives are sata, and use the same > controller. Perhaps the controller is damaged. The second guess is > linux-2.6.21.1, because these problems began shortly after upgrading the > kernel to this version from 2.6.20.2. > > Have any of you ever had similar issues? > Not exactly a similar issue, but then I don't use encryption. On my previous "server" everything in /home was backed up several times a day (including source tarballs) using rsync to a separate disk (with a rolling set of x copies). One day, a tarball for gcc became corrupt. Searching through the backups of that tarball, they all seemed to be corrupt too. In that case I downloaded it again, but eventually I powered the box down, ran memtest86+, and sure enough one of the memory sticks had gone bad.
You said your bios tests the memory, but I tend to have a low opinion of bios code (it's probably better than I could write, but that doesn't mean it's any good ;). Try memtest86+. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
