not again - raid corrupts data

From: Rainer Fuegenstein <hidden>
Date: 2002-10-24 18:27:05

Hi,

I've been here some time ago with this strange problem:

intel dual pentium server running redhat 7.1, 2 scsi disks
mirrored as software raid. when copying large files from
one partition to another, the file gets corrupted:

[vor@server tmp]$ cp /opt/java/jdk-1.3.1_02.i386.rpm .
[vor@server tmp]$ diff /opt/java/jdk-1.3.1_02.i386.rpm jdk-1.3.1_02.i386.rpm 
Binary files /opt/java/jdk-1.3.1_02.i386.rpm and jdk-1.3.1_02.i386.rpm differ

solution then was to upgrade the firmware of the two IBM scsi disks.

but, what a nightmare, after a (forced) reboot the whole problem is
here again. and, worst of all, the reboot caused a resync of the 
raid and a file system check which obviously corrupted some other
larger files.

I'm at the end of my sanity - any ideas, hints ?

tnx in advance.
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