Files corrupt on copy

[Peter J. Stieber]

AC = Andy Campbell
AC> I'll try reseting the BIOS to defaults.

Have you tried running memtest.  I had a machine that would reboot very 
so often.  Ran memtest and it failed "every great once in a while."  It 
was a bad MB.

AC> Strangely I'm trying to reproduce a plain text file (370Mb),
AC> so I can see how corrupt the file gets ( easier to diff )
AC> and its copied fine 64+ times so just seems to be binary files.

Maybe "cmp -l file1 file2" will help determine where the binary file 
copy problem occurs?

Pete