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Red Hat crashing when copying large files

  • 12-10-2005 9:04am
    #1
    Slaanesh
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 1,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Here in work we have a RH9 machine, it has a 1TB raid formatted to ext3, I recently got a 400GB external USB2 hard drive for backup.

    I used the cp command to backup all the files I wanted, this worked pretty well at the start.

    We have a database of 24,000 mp3s, they all copied fine. However, we also have 2000 odd music videos at ~60MB a pop. It copied a few hundred of these and then the server just crashed. At the console it said there was some sort of sync error. I can't find the log that would have stored the error message.

    I can boot up the machine and mount all the drives again and copy between 10-100 more mpg's but it will crash again. It's not any one specific file making it crash, I'm a bit lost on this one !

    Any help would be appreciated.


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  • #2
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,084 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Hmm, sounds like it could be a USB2 driver problem. When Redhat 9 was released, USB2 was still a relatively new technology so the driver, although working well, wasn't fully stress tested. 2.6 series kernel is obviously the best for modern hardware, although 2.4 series wise, I've heard kernels pre 2.4.22 are a little bit flaky for USB2. You could try seeing if Redhat have an updated kernel for your system.


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