Mailinglist Archive: packet-writing (59 mails)

[Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 09 2000, adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> more testings:
> 	- I was able to write over 90mb of data to the cdrw.
> 	it was without problems (ie maching blowing up as someone
> 	else reported).
> 
> 	however the write would freeze machien for seconds (as long
> 	as 30 sec or even min at time) not even mouse would move then.

Using SCSI or IDE? UP or SMP?

> 	- the data written onto cd is corrupted. for example
> 
> [root@pepsi cd1]# tar ztvf ncd19r.tar.gz 
> drwxr-xr-x mrbill/mrbill     0 2000-03-06 14:48:55 ./
> -rw-r--r-- mrbill/mrbill 2435664 1999-10-31 14:58:00 Xncd19r
> 
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> [root@pepsi cd1]# gunzip -t ~adam/ncd19r.tar.gz 
> [root@pepsi cd1]# 

All the data or some of it? Could I get you to find out where the
corruption is taking place -- try doing a cmp of some corrupted files
and the originals, to see where the offset is.

> 	.. so unfortunatelly it is still useless for me for backups :-(

We'll get there 8)

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx>
* SuSE Labs