Re: Strange write errors on FAT32 partition (maybe an FAT32 bug?!)

[Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>]

Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Roger Heflin wrote:
> > The failure can manifest itself in many ways, I have
> > only seen it as a read failure, but there should be no
> > reason why it cannot also show as a write failure.
> >
> > It should be in the later vanilla kernels, it won't
> > be in the earlier ones,  I would do a
> > find /lib/modules -name "*edac*" -ls
> >
> > It is a hw issue, either something is running faster that
> > it should be (pci bus set to fast for the given hardware/config)
> > or something is broken.
> The strange thing is that it always occures on the copied data,.. not
> the original (which is on another disk). But wouldn those parity errors
> not occur in general?
> For example al my sha1sums -c sumfile checks are working corretly on the
> original disk :/

Are both disks of the same type and connected to the same
hardware?

Or do they have different physical connections/drivers to the
machine?

                       Roger
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