[WBEL-users] File corruption and new kernel

[Graham David Purcocks M.A.(Oxon.)]

And what happens if you use the crappy builtin driver? Maybe there is a
reason that is the one being issued.

Don't know but worth asking the question.


BTW, We've had problems with a large number of SATA drives being duff,
so you could have a bad one.

Graham

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 17:30, Bob Ramstad wrote:
> Hey there.  Two quickies...
> 
> 1) I'm running the latest WBEL3 kernel recompiled with sata_sil
> instead of the crappy builtin driver.  I've been seeing some file
> corruption, it's odd, but basically when I copy large quantities of
> files (20+ GB) it is not uncommon for a handful of files to be
> corrupted.  As an example the other day, I copied 55 GB worth of
> files, roughly 2200 files in total, and ended up with three that
> wouldn't pass md5sum --check as compared to the original.
> 
> Note in this case that the Serial ATA drives were the source, and the
> destination was a FAT32 filesystem.  Also note that once I recopied
> those three files, everything was fine.
> 
> Has anyone else seen anything along these lines?  I would assume it's
> a Serial ATA specific problem, but not sure.
> 
> 2) I'm feeling like the best thing to do would be to get a more recent
> kernel.  Part of me doesn't like doing this as it would fall outside
> the "yum" model i.e. if there's an update, I won't be automatically
> notified.  Is there anyone out there aware of a kernel-source yum
> repository for WBEL3 that is regularly updated for the latest 2.4
> kernel?
> 
> -- Bob
> 
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