On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:41:49AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> FWIW, a ~60Gb .tar.bz2 works fine here..  on a 5-way pata raidframe raid5

Thanks for testing. I can now confirm that my problems are hardware related.
The machine failed one component of the two disk raid1 set used as / very
shortly afterwards, and now memtest86 found memory problems too.

Martin