> Linux corrupts files when writing them to disk.
Is it repeatable? Does it do it always on any 512-bytes file?
> I have a Triton III mainboard (i430VX chipset) with iPentium 200,
> 512k SRAM cache, and a DIMM 32Mb SDRAM chip.
>
> It seems that it's a hardware flaw, but win95 doesn't present
> any problem.
>
> I already disabled the external cache, used an ISA IDE card,
> tried different hard disks, linux distributions, different kernels
> (1.2.13, 2.0.27, etc.), and the corruption remains.
Strange... Try to
- disable l2 cache, use only 4Meg of memory
- use that isa ide card
- make sure you _DON'T_ use hdparm (better rm it from your computer
;-)
> Could anybody tell me weather it's a kernel problem or
> if I am using broken or unsupported hardware?
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).