Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:32:45 -0600 | From | Anthony Tuininga <> | Subject | Stupidity |
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Dear Peter T. Breuer:
> First - this is the kernel developers private mailing list, not the "help me > fix my equipment or setup problems" open forum.
First of all, this is not a "help me fix up my problems" type of question. As I demonstrated quite clearly, I went to a great deal of trouble to isolate the problem -- it is a data corruption problem which is found only under Linux. I have received a post from someone considerably more friendly indicating that the problem is a known data corruption problem with the CD ROM drive I own and gave me a patch to test.
> You evidently have a memory problem. I would suspect you are also getting > occasional programs segfaulting for no good reason too .. maybe deaths > of gcc only to find that running it again works.
I have performed memory tests and not one of them has failed. And no, I am not getting all sorts of segfaults in gcc or any other program, for that matter. Except for this problem with the CD ROM drive my Linux system works quite well -- so I do not "evidently have a memory problem".
> You should probably test your memory and start doing other tests to see > if you can copy or compare another big file to itself successfully (try at > least 1000 times to give the copy in memory time to degrade ...)
Save your "helpful" comments for someone who cares. If you don't understand what I am asking for, then leave it alone and let someone else handle it.
> Please use linux.dev.newbie or c.o.l.setup for this kind of problem > request. Use this mailing list for detailed bug reports of kernel > problems or patches to fix same.
Please use linux.stupid.responses for your posts. Thanks.
Anthony
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