The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA.
**Rob: If you are using IDE disks (if you don't know that you have
SCSI disks, you most surely have IDE disks), you should immediately
disable DMA.
(E.g., add "ide=nodma" to your kernel command line. Where you can set your kernel command line depends on how you boot.)
Daniel
While DMA related corruption may be the problem in Rob's case, I believe most of the problems have been worked out. I say this because I have an nForce2 mobo (one of the more problematic) running a Debianized 2.4.22 kernel without any sort of data corruption problems.
-Roberto
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