Intermittent ext3 corruption on external firewire Micronet1.5Tb RAID on FC3

[Joseph D. Wagner]

> What I would do (if you don't mind overwriting the disk, presumably
> not if it is just new and doesn't contain important data) is to
> write a small test program to write the byte offset at the start of
> every 4kB block on the disk, then read them all back and verify it
> is correct.

That's what badblocks is for when doing a destructive write test.

Joseph D. Wagner