On Thursday 17 August 2006 00:17, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > > I started dd'ing text file onto /dev/sda2, then back to tmpfs and diffing > > these. Corruption is one byte, several not corrupted bytes and again one > > corrupted byte. Some regular pattern. > > Could you send me the a snippet (2 to 4KB) of the good and bad data? The corruption doesn't happen so often. I need 1MB of data to see 5 bytes corrupted. [root@pldmachine ~]# dd if=xok of=/dev/sda2 bs=1M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out [root@pldmachine ~]# dd if=/dev/sda2 of=try1 bs=1M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out [root@pldmachine ~]# dd if=/dev/sda2 of=try2 bs=1M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out [root@pldmachine ~]# dd if=/dev/sda2 of=try3 bs=1M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out results http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~arekm/qlogic/ > > Regards, > Andrew Vasquez -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html