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

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Date:	Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:42:48 -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:
>> That should mean that it is not a HW pci bus issue, though I
>> still have seen odd MB failures that cause corruption and don't
>> show anywhere (pci, ecc, mcelog), and only show up with cksums
>> on specific pieces of hw.
>>
>> I don't have any good way of find those, we swapped one part
>> at a time until it went quit doing it.
> Would those errors also occur when just calculating message digests
> (sha1sum)? Because if so,.. I could exclude those types of errors for my
> issue because as I've told,.. at least on the original files the sha
> sums always are correct.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris.

Usually it seemed to be IO related, the sums just happened
to show it issue.   It did not seem to be a cpu issue,
something unknown outside of the cpu seemed to cause it.

                              Roger
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