Subject: Re: Data corruption
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg@myrealbox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/03/2005 01:40:04
> I'm not sure I'm seeing a general problem or broken hardware - so it would
> be interesting if it is just me or anyone else sees this.
> 
> I'm running an older i386 SMP machine, with two SATA disks raid0'd as /.
> It's running -current as of a few days ago.
> 
> I'm seeing strange data corruption on disk, i.e. bzip2 some *large*
> file and then "bzip2 -t" the result - and it fails with crc errors.

I have ever seen this kind of errors several days ago when I deleted some mails.
It no more happened after I updated the system to more recent.

> I have not yet run memtest, will try that next (but since the machine never
> crashes, random memory corruption is not too likely, IMHO).
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?