Notice: Intel Accelerator software corrupts files on large drives

[mos]

If anyone is having problems with corrupted files on Windows machines with 
drives > 137GB, the culprit is likely  a copy of the Intel Accelerator 
software if you happen to have it installed. The Intel Accelerator will 
corrupt files when it writes to sectors beyond 137gb. Intel has an update 
out but I uninstalled the old version and the problem went away. Good riddance.

This problem applies not only to MySQL databases, but files in general. So 
my advice is to uninstall Intel Accelerator and leave it uninstalled. I 
spent a couple of weeks trying to figure out why applications writing to my 
new 200gb drive would produce files that couldn't be opened or verified 
when the drive was filling up. There are no error messages or warnings of 
any kind. The files just get corrupted. Thanks a lot Intel.   :-(

Mike 

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