At 2:40 PM -0700 4/29/01, Bri wrote:
>  What makes you think that IDE itself has inherent corruption problems?

Old stories/myths. Five years ago (the last time I dealt with SCSI in 
Unix), the story was "SCSI is faster and more reliable than IDE". I 
know the "faster" part has gone away, but I don't know about the 
"more reliable".

>  Your experiences would lead me to believe that you were working with
>faulty hardware. I've never experienced any sort of issues like that.

Others (off-list) have said they have seen similar things and thought 
that it was the IDE controller saying it can do more than it really 
can.

--Paul Hoffman