I must apologize for the delay in replying to the many helpful
responses I received on this problem, and I'd like to say "thank you
very much" (Domo Arigato Gozaimasu) to the many who looked into this on
my behalf....:-)
Here's the status so far:
I ran the e2fcsk utility which did not detect any problems on the
hard drive. I had not known about the IBM DFT utility until it was
suggested by one of the responses, so I picked that up and tried it. I
ran the quick test, which immediately indicated two corrupt sectors. I
ran the Corrupt Sector Repair Utility (which does not seem to be
documented in the manual that comes with DFT) after backing up, and
repeated the tests a couple of times. There were no more complaints
from DFT. I will be reloading my test directory, which I had to dump
before the backup, and I will repeat the copy test on Monday after that
to see if the file corruption still occurs.
I do not know what caused the corrupted sectors, but I am giving
serious thought to a new mother board (to get rid of the chipset and
Promise controller), and perhaps a replacement for the "IBM DeathStar".
I'll let you all know the outcome of the tests on Monday. I am still
curious about the precise 4k damaged blocks.
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