Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:04:26 -0700 (PDT) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10? |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Harald Koenig wrote:
> On Jun 17, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > If I copy a large (650Mb) file to a different filename, then perform > > > a compare on them, I encounter random, different miscompares. I've > > > seen this on several 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 systems. > > > > Ok people is this > > > > SCSI or IDE (or a mix)
I'm _not_ seeing errors; see below.
System 1 is P200 w/IDE, two AC22100H drives, striped swap. Bootup says:
PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: WDC AC22100H, ATA DISK drive hdc: WDC AC22100H, ATA DISK drive
BTW, this is with IDE DMA _OFF_. It's normally on, but when I upgraded to 2.2, it is now off by default and I forgot to turn it on.
System 2 is Alpha EV45 w/ncr53c810 and Micropolis SCSI-II. Bootup says:
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected ncr53c810-0: rev=0x02, base=0x4200000, io_port=0x8000, irq=11 ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset). scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: MICROP Model: 3243-19 1128RV Rev: 28RV Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: SONY Model: CD-R CDU920S Rev: 2.0b Type: WORM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 ncr53c810-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8 scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. ncr53c810-0-<0,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8388315 [4095 MB] [4.1 GB]
> > What compiler was used
Linux version 2.2.9 (bryan@terror) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 Thu May 27 11:45:04 PDT 1999
and
Linux version 2.2.9 (bryan@neptune.terran) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #5 Mon May 24 22:33:44 PDT 1999
> On Jun 17, Philip Gladstone wrote: > > > Ahah -- when I try this with a 120MB file, I get non-random miscompares! ... > I've done some similar attempts with 110MB and 220MB files > but I had no `success' (read: no compare errors!).
I ran several tests on system 1 with 100000k files from both /dev/zero and /dev/urandom, copied to and from both the same drive and the other drive. I never got any compare errors with cmp -l.
I also tried it on system 2 with 120000k files from one of my raw partitions and also never saw a mismatch with cmp -l.
Again: I did not see any problem. System 1 has been running for 23 days under busy load and with lots of disk activity (G's of data touched).
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