Files corrupt on copy

[Andy Campbell]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:22:24 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:14:39 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> 
>> Does feel like hardware or a BIOS setup failure of some sort - is the
>> IDE/AHCI controller on the mainboard or a plug in card ? - Have you
>> checked the box for BIOS updates and also tried resetting to
>>   the BIOS safe defaults and retesting ?
> 
> 
> Main board ...
> 
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA
> AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
> 	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P5Q Deluxe Motherboard Flags: bus
> 	master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at 9c00
> 	[size=8]
> 	I/O ports at 9880 [size=4]
> 	I/O ports at 9800 [size=8]
> 	I/O ports at 9480 [size=4]
> 	I/O ports at 9400 [size=32]
> 	Memory at f9ffe800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] 
Capabilities:
> 	<access denied>
> 	Kernel driver in use: ahci
> 
> I'll try reseting the BIOS to defaults.
> 
> Strangely I'm trying to reproduce a plain text file (370Mb), so I can
> see how corrupt the file gets ( easier to diff ) and its copied fine 64+
> times so just seems to be binary files.
> 
> Thanks for taking an interest.

Safe/Default BIOS config still has the problem - only change to the BIOS 
was hard drive order to keep GAG ( Boot loader happy )

still can't get the text file to fail to copy - I'll leave it running in a 
loop.