On 6/29/05, Tom Sightler <ttsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I decided to reinstall and try again. This time, immediately after the > install I ran fsck and found no errors. I copied my directories from my > backup again, and the corruption also returned. I repeated again, this > time I booted with ide=nodma before restoring my backup, this caused the > restore to take so long that I wasn't sure it would ever finish. I did > not get corruption, but the system was far to slow to use with this > option. This really, really sounds like a hardware problem. I would check your /var/log/messages and see what smartctl has to say about your drives. I'd also check the status of the drivers for your USB controller chipset, since if it is a software bug, that's probably where the problem lies. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
