Well the results are finally in. Hopefully we can concentrate on putting
them right, rather than having a round of "told you so's" :-)
I modified the test program slightly to improve the consistency checks.
The updated version is attached.
Regards, Dave.
System
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Gigabyte GA-6VTXD Motherboard
Dual 1GHz PIII Processors
1Gb Non-ECC RAM
Fujitsu MPG3240AH IDE Disk Drive
Enhanced IDE Performance disabled in the BIOS.
Test
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Test program run from a seperate machine.
20 Tests per OS.
Powerfail randomly applied.
Windows 2000 Testing
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Write back cache on IDE disk disabled.
Clean installation of Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 3
Run | Errors Detected
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01 | None
02 | None
03 | None
04 | None
05 | None
06 | None
07 | COUNT CHECK - Duplicate or missing rows detected (10262)!!
08 | None
09 | DISTINCT CHECK - Duplicate or missing rows detected (9893)!!
| COUNT CHECK - Duplicate or missing rows detected (9893)!!
10 | None
11 | None
12 | None
13 | None
14 | COUNT CHECK - Duplicate or missing rows detected (10024)!!
15 | None
16 | None
17 | None
18 | None
19 | None
20 | None
Linux Testing
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Clean installation of Slackware Linux 8.1 on ext3
Kernel 2.4.18
Run | Errors Detected
=============================================================
01 | None
02 | None
03 | None
04 | None
05 | None
06 | None
07 | None
08 | None
09 | None
10 | None
11 | None
12 | None
13 | None
14 | None
15 | None
16 | None
17 | None
18 | None
19 | None
20 | None