Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:56:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:56:16 -0400 Received: from mercury.ST.HMC.Edu ([134.173.57.219]:13065 "HELO mercury.st.hmc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:56:05 -0400 From: Nate Eldredge MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15063.8582.293619.762113@mercury.st.hmc.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:55:50 -0700 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: lomarcan@tin.it Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update 2 X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.5.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org lomarcan@tin.it wrote: > Well, the 2.2 distributed with Mandrake 7.2 works fine ... :) > > Hmmm... 32 CONSECUTIVE bytes are a very peculiar error. What can it be? > > Still experimenting... I once ran into a problem with 32-byte errors appearing in files, and later, in memory. I eventually traced it to buggy motherboard cache. (32 bytes is the size of a cache line.) A memory tester might be something to try (I wrote a simple program that seemed to show the error better than memtest86; can send it if desired.) -- Nate Eldredge neldredge@hmc.edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/