Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 22:50:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 22:50:56 -0400 Received: from ns1w.atr.co.jp ([133.186.1.10]:53924 "EHLO mailgw1.atr.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 22:50:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3D3A21EC.5000400@atr.co.jp> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 11:52:28 +0900 From: "J. Hart" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File Corruption in Kernel 2.4.18 References: <3D362125.3A324489@atr.co.jp> <20020718072155.GB1548@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <3D367295.2010109@gmx.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1521 Lines: 34 I must apologize for the delay in replying to the many helpful responses I received on this problem, and I'd like to say "thank you very much" (Domo Arigato Gozaimasu) to the many who looked into this on my behalf....:-) Here's the status so far: I ran the e2fcsk utility which did not detect any problems on the hard drive. I had not known about the IBM DFT utility until it was suggested by one of the responses, so I picked that up and tried it. I ran the quick test, which immediately indicated two corrupt sectors. I ran the Corrupt Sector Repair Utility (which does not seem to be documented in the manual that comes with DFT) after backing up, and repeated the tests a couple of times. There were no more complaints from DFT. I will be reloading my test directory, which I had to dump before the backup, and I will repeat the copy test on Monday after that to see if the file corruption still occurs. I do not know what caused the corrupted sectors, but I am giving serious thought to a new mother board (to get rid of the chipset and Promise controller), and perhaps a replacement for the "IBM DeathStar". I'll let you all know the outcome of the tests on Monday. I am still curious about the precise 4k damaged blocks. - 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/