Fedora Users — RE: FC3 USB Hard drive

I guess I did not make myself clear.

The control group is a set of large files 1.3gb and up, the exact same set of files. The smaller set of files I mentioned was just a test just to see if it was the amount of data being transferred or the file sizes themselves in question. Transferring the control group of files works fine on FC1 but not on FC3. Transferring the control group to the internal hard disk works fine on both FC1 and FC3. Transferring to a usb hard drive fails with corrupted files on FC3. The network cards in use are different chip sets and load different drivers. The first card is a D-Link card loading the RTL8139 driver. The new card is a Linksys card loading the Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 driver.

I could believe it was a network issue if both the transfer to the internal hard disk failed along with the transfer to the usb drive failed, but it doesn’t.

Elimination for success was only network (hardware) all software and OS behaved consistently Plus see below

This problem does not occur on the same machines when running FC1. I transferred a 3.5gb set of smaller files ranging in size from 8k to 3m with no file corruption.

With FC1 max file size (as U say) is 3m......whereas problem is with large files and "on network" -> again elimination takes us to network card.

This problem only appears to occur with large files. I have two different machines which I have tried this with. One is a Pentium 900 and the other is a AMD2200. Using a control group of 17 files and running the transfer multiple times I have found out the corruption occurs in different places on different files each time. Three or four files will be corrupt when transferring to the AMD2200 machine while tweleve to seventeen of the files will be corrupt on the Pentium 900 machine. This problem does not occur when I run FC1 on these machines, but does occur when running FC3. I have tried this with several different brands of usb drives with the same results.

Is the control group same (identical) for FC1 and FC3, and has a mix of small and gigsize files?

If UR sure that the same worked on FC1 then it would be worth to try using network card's FC1 drivers on FC3 !!! and befriend Bugzilla.

(I recall a case of VGA monitors between FC3 and FC4.)

otherwise..

Please check specs of network card, even ur new cards may be of similar specs (genre wise) as old cards - no offence but just check.

- AKS

RE: FC3 USB Hard drive - large file corruption