Could this be the DMA across page boundaries bug?  I'm guessing that these
files weren't corrupted on transfer, because tcp checksums would have
cought that.  Could it be the IDE drive using DMA that's causing the
problems?  The IDE controller is on the first PCI bus, so it hasn't gone
across the ppb.  If this is the case would a scsi controler fix it? I
notice that all of the people who have reported sucess with the miatas
have had scsi.  This still doesn't explain why it would work in
FreeBSD/Linux/NT and not netbsd though.  There must be some software
glitch at play here along with the bunk hardware.

Thanks,
Jeff

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jeff Roberson wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:44:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jeff Roberson <nomad@nop.aliensystems.com>
> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: DPWS500/Pyxis bugs, corrupt memory etc. 
> 
> I just confirmed.  This does happen with or without the patch. All of the
> archives are still being corrupted..
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:30:47 -0800
> > From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> > To: Jeff Roberson <nomad@nop.aliensystems.com>
> > Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: DPWS500/Pyxis bugs, corrupt memory etc. 
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:04:48 -0800 (PST) 
> >  Jeff Roberson <nomad@nop.aliensystems.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  > I'm having even more problems with this machine now though. There are some
> >  > serious corruption problems.  When I downloaded the install files they all
> >  > had crc errors.  So nfs mounted another machine and copied it over.  After
> >  > that occasionally when I recompile my kernel I get gcc errors.  Some data
> >  > written to .depend was corrupted, and occasionally the assembler reports
> >  > invalid input.  Each time after I rerun make it works.  Fsck is also
> >  > constantly reporting problems with my disk.  Does anyone know what might
> >  > cause this?  I've ruled out hardware errors as other operating systems
> >  > have not had these problems.
> > 
> > Does this happen both with and without that other patch that I sent you?
> > 
> >         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> > 
> > 
> 
>