st corruption
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri Mar 23 06:41:46 EST 2001
(cfr. my posting on linux-kernel)
I'm seeing data corruption when writing to tape. Not when reading, not when
copying between disks.
The corruption affects 32 bytes on a 32-byte boundary. The corrupted data are
always a copy of the data exactly 10240 bytes before. Note that 32 bytes is the
cache line size of a 604e, while 10240 is the default block size for tar.
Perhaps a missing sync before PCI busmastering?
My hardware: CHRP LongTrail, HP C1536 DDS1 tape drive connected to Sym53c875.
The problem happens with 2.4.3-pre4, but also with the good old
2.4.0-test1-ac10. This means all backups I have may be corrupted :-(
Anybody out there with a SCSI tape drive who's willing to do some tests?
Someone already tried with a Pentium, but no corruption, so it may be a PPC
specific problem. Just create some large files, make md5sums, tar them to tape,
untar them from tape, and verify the md5sums. I see approx. 7 blocks of
corrupted data for 256 MB of data.
Many thanks in advance!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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