Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:54:28 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ATAPI: corrupted data? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970128125351.27931A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199701282002.PAA01969@spooky.rwwa.com>
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This may be a dumb question but have you tried swapping out the IDE cable in favor of a [new | known good] one? On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Robert Withrow wrote: > I didn't get anything on the newsgroup: > > I have a P6-200/VS440FX/2.1.5 system in which I have tried two > different ATAPI CDROM drives (a Creative 8x and a toshiba 4x). > I get corrupt data when I read large files (like FreeBSD distribution > tarballs.) If I repeatedly mount/md5/dismount I get different > MD5 checksums for large files each time. If I boot W95 and copy the > file, then reboot FreeBSD, the MD5 checksums are OK. > > Since I have two IDE hard drives on the other channel of this > system (working fine on FreeBSD) and the CDROM works on W95 I am > reluctant to think the hardware is broken. > > I thought only the probing of ATAPI CDROM drives was broken. Is > reading them (once probed) also broken, or what? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM > > > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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