linux-kernel - Re: Strange write errors on FAT32 partition (maybe an FAT32 bug?!)

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Date:	Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:03:42 -0600
From:	Roger Heflin <rheflin@...pa.com>
To:	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@...entia.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange write errors on FAT32 partition (maybe an FAT32 bug?!)

Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Roger Heflin wrote:
>> The failure can manifest itself in many ways, I have
>> only seen it as a read failure, but there should be no
>> reason why it cannot also show as a write failure.
>>
>> It should be in the later vanilla kernels, it won't
>> be in the earlier ones,  I would do a
>> find /lib/modules -name "*edac*" -ls
>>
>> It is a hw issue, either something is running faster that
>> it should be (pci bus set to fast for the given hardware/config)
>> or something is broken.
> The strange thing is that it always occures on the copied data,.. not
> the original (which is on another disk). But wouldn those parity errors
> not occur in general?
> For example al my sha1sums -c sumfile checks are working corretly on the
> original disk :/

Are both disks of the same type and connected to the same
hardware?

Or do they have different physical connections/drivers to the
machine?

                        Roger
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