In message <20070318131606.GJ6063@xxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > But what amazes me is that no media errors can be detected by doing a > write/read check on every sector of the disk with mke2fs, and no data > corruption occurs when moving data to the set locally! > > Can anyone shed some light on what i can try next to isolate what is > causing all this? It's not the software raid code, the IDE set is If it happens only with downloaded data, you may see data corruption in the NIC hardware and/or driver. Try using another network card (other vendor, other type). Another possible culprit is memory - you may see memory errors under certain usage patterns. Make sur to run a memory test, and/or try changing RAM. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, HRB 165235 Munich, CEO: Wolfgang Denk Office: Kirchenstr. 5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html