On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:10:27PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> However, I
> was able to duplicate the problem simply by gzipping a big file to
> my ATA/IDE holding disk. So I'm certain it's not a scsi problem.

Is it repeatable?  I.e. if you gzip the *same* file five times,
do you get the same error five times, at the same location?  Or
do you get five different errors?  Or maybe a mix of errors and
successes?

The former would point to a bug in gzip; the latter to hardware
problems of some sort (or kernel, but I'd bet on the hardware).

Try that test on your freshly installed Debian box, that you say
works fine.  Then install (but don't use) Amanda and try it
again.

Divide and conquer :-)

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