Problem with file corruption on new system, but no error?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

I've got a new AMD 64machine running on a MSI MS-6741 ver: 1 
motherboard with 1GB of Ram, and a Maxto 250 diamond Max 10 
6B250R0 hard drive. 

The system has the latest FC3 updated with GYUM. The system 
has been working fine till today, and for most things still seems to 
be.

Problem. I create Image file on this machine, and use them to 
restore systems. The 250GB drive was to be able to store many 
images. Previously, I was using a P4 system with a 40GB drive, so I 
could only store two of the 13GB images. 

This worked fine till today. Yesterday, I downloaded an image from 
the machine with no problem, did some updates, and created a new 
image. Then today, I went to restore the new image, and was 
getting checksum errors on the lzop decompression. Then went to 
the machine, and started checking the files on the machine, and it 
failed there as well. Also, checked the other 5 image files, and they 
also now have errors, but they worked yesterday. 

The system gave no errors, and I then tried a shutdown -r -F now, 
and have it come up. The scan would run up to 34.1% and then 
would sit there for about 30 seconds, then it would go back to the 
text screen for about  1 minute, then back to the testing screen with 
34.9% and go on thru the rest of the test. No error. 

I did another image on the new image to the older server, and the 
lzop -t <image worked fine. I then used ncftp to copy the file to the 
new machine, and then ran a test, and it failed with a checksum.

I've now deleted all the image files, and now the shutdown -r -F now 
goes thru without the pausing. Will see if it works tomorrow, but 
don't know if this is something with the hardware, or with the OS. 
Except for the lzop checksum, nothing shows an error. Is it 
something with having more than a few 13GB files. 

The partition was setup as default by the FC3, so it has a boot 
partition, and the reset is one big partition.

Any suggestions on what might be causing the problem, or how to 
resolve/test various things. 

Thanks.

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