From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268294AbUI2KJ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:09:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268295AbUI2KJ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:09:58 -0400 Received: from jive.SoftHome.net ([66.54.152.27]:18622 "HELO jive.SoftHome.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268294AbUI2KJ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:09:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:17:44 +0800 From: Joshua Ross To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Data corruption on IDE disk via USB. Message-Id: <20040929171744.0b3a0773.jrxr@softhome.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have an external hard drive with an IDE interface. This goes through a USB2.0-IDE adapter. I'm getting silent corruption of data when copying big files to the drive, but not consistently. The partition was originally ext3, but I'm now mounting it ext2 and sync. Still getting the corruption. Running on: Linux albert 2.6.8.1 #5 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux. Any suggestions about stopping the corruption/diagnosing what's going on? Thanks. p.s. Please cc me in replies since I read the list through hypermail.