Re: File corruption with 2940U2 SCSI card and aic7xxx driver.

[Ray Lee]

On 9/1/06, Ethan <thesyntheticsophist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recently installed an Adaptec 2940U2 controller and two disks in my
> Debian Sarge system, kernel version 2.6.8.
[...]
> The original file, "alphabet", contains the line
> "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" repeated many times; however the file
> read from the SCSI drive, "alphabet_ver2", contains a number lines
> like "abcdefghijklmnopqrstubcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" and
> "abcdopqrstuvwxyz" --- all the correct characters, just out of order.

Well, they're probably not out of order per se, but more than some
data on a page granularity was dropped, duplicated, or something. If
you have a bit of coding skills, I'd suggest writing a bunch of 32-bit
ints to a file, in increasing order, and use that as a test case. That
way each 32-bit word is unique, and you might be able to spot a bit
more of a pattern as to what's going on (is it duplicated? Is it out
of order?).

This might give hints to those with bigger brains than mine.

Ray

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