I maintain it is network card - my reason see below
On 12/5/05, Robert Paxton <rpaxton(a)myeserver.com> wrote:
I am experiencing a problem on my FC3 file server with large files (1gb
and larger) being corrupted when transferring the files to a usb drive over
the network. I can transfer the same set of files to the internal hard drive
over the network with no problems. I can transfer the same set of files from
the internal hard drive to the usb drive with no problem. I have transferred
the files from a Windows XP machine and a Windows 2000 machine with the same
sort of corruption occurring. The problem only occurs when transferring the
files across the network to the usb drive. I have transferred the files to
the usb drive with both a samba share and through sftp with file corruption
occurring with both types of transfers.
Elimination for success was only network (hardware) all software and OS
behaved consistently Plus see below
This problem does not occur on the same machines when running FC1. I
transferred a 3.5gb set of smaller files ranging in size from 8k to
3m
with no file corruption.
With FC1 max file size (as U say) is 3m......whereas problem is with large
files and "on network" -> again elimination takes us to network card.
This problem only appears to occur with large files. I have two different
machines which I have tried this with. One is a Pentium 900 and the
other is
a AMD2200. Using a control group of 17 files and running the transfer
multiple times I have found out the corruption occurs in different places on
different files each time. Three or four files will be corrupt when
transferring to the AMD2200 machine while tweleve to seventeen of the files
will be corrupt on the Pentium 900 machine. This problem does not occur when
I run FC1 on these machines, but does occur when running FC3. I have tried
this with several different brands of usb drives with the same results.
Is the control group same (identical) for FC1 and FC3, and has a mix
of small and gigsize files?
If UR sure that the same worked on FC1 then it would be worth to try using
network card's FC1 drivers on FC3 !!! and befriend Bugzilla.
(I recall a
case<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242>of
VGA monitors between FC3 and FC4.)
otherwise..
Please check specs of network card, even ur new cards may be of similar
specs (genre wise) as old cards - no offence but just check.
- AKS