John Madden writes: > Any ideas on the signs of corruption? I've got the VIA VT82C686, and I > haven't noticed any problems yet... Perhaps a (naive) test (possibly dangerous: do it at your risk) could be: 1) Disable DMA transfers 2) generate a large file of random data (i.e. dd if=/dev/random of=~/bigJoe bs=1024k count=150) 3) Compute its md5sum (i.e. md5sum ~/bigJoe) and annotate it 4) Enable DMA transfers again 5) Make a copy the file somewhere else (with `cp'). 6) recompute the md5sum of the new file and check if it differs... 7) Go to point 5 until satisfied. Since the problem occurs on large transfers, probably it can be noticed only when doing backups -- UNIX diapers by Pannolini USPTO 2039887 http://www.uspto.gov Matteo Ianeselli ianezz AT sodalia.it (+39) 0461 316452 Visita il LinuxTrent: http://linuxtrent.grinta.net ============================================================= Avenir Web's Linux Discussion List List info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=13 To unsubscribe: email linux-discussion-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. Administrative contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =============================================================