Reproducible Filesystem Corruption on FC4 (Long)

[Ben Steeves]

On 6/29/05, Tom Sightler <ttsig at tuxyturvy.com> wrote:
> I decided to reinstall and try again.  This time, immediately after the
> install I ran fsck and found no errors.  I copied my directories from my
> backup again, and the corruption also returned.  I repeated again, this
> time I booted with ide=nodma before restoring my backup, this caused the
> restore to take so long that I wasn't sure it would ever finish.  I did
> not get corruption, but the system was far to slow to use with this
> option.

This really, really sounds like a hardware problem.  I would check
your /var/log/messages and see what smartctl has to say about your
drives.  I'd also check the status of the drivers for your USB
controller chipset, since if it is a software bug, that's probably
where the problem lies.

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