file corruption in 2.4.16/17

[Christian Ohm]

hi.

i've recently bought a new 80gb ide drive, and am now getting corrupted
files on it. i've made three partitions for linux on it, a small ext2 one as
root, and two larger ones with reiserfs as /usr and /var. the problem is
that now some files get randomly corrupted; they are the right size, but
contain some random garbage (searching the archive for this list just came
up with some issues around july / kernel 2.4.6), which makes the system
pretty much unusable.

my old setup with a 20gb ide drive and a 4.5gb scsi drive worked flawlessly
for at least a year with reiserfs, so this seems to be a problem with
reiserfs and large drives (i haven't found a corrupted file on the ext2
partition (yet)). my hardware is: a nmc (now enmic) 8tax+ mainboard with via
kt133 chipset (newest bios), a maxtor d540x-4k 80gb harddrive and a quantum
lct15 20gb harddrive. i used kernel 2.4.16 with the preemtion patch, but
2.4.17 seems to have the same problem.

windows had a problem with the maxtor drive, too. i made a fat32 partition
and copied the files from the old drive under linux. worked perfectly, but
when reading the partition with windows, it showed a corrupted file system.
i had to install a special ide driver not included in the via 4in1 drivers
to read it correctly, but now it works without problems.

i'd be happy if there's a solution for this, as, like i said, the system now
is pretty much unusable.

bye
christian ohm

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