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SubjectRe: Weird data corruption?
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Haruhiko Okumura wrote:

> Alex Butche (linkern@cocoa.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>
> > I had similar problems until I switched a Creative Labs 24x drive for a
> > Tae-Il (who?!) 32x drive. You might get away with tweaking the IDE cables
> > and checking they're seated properly.
>
> I'm having a similar problem (data mutations while disk read/write).
> Thanks, Alex. I'll try that.
>
> Also, Pablo Bianucci, who originally wrote about the weird data
> corruption, kindly wrote to me that he might have been accessing the
> memory at a too fast speed, and slowing down things a bit in the BIOS
> setup had seemingly fixed the problem.
>
> But I'm still somewhat uneasy about possible data mutations. Is there
> any way to have Linux report checksum error for disk read/write?

Only with SCSI and UDMA. Plain old (E)IDE has no provision for checksumming,
AFAIK. Linux will report CRC errors on UDMA transfers if they are
encountered.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. :)

> Haruhiko Okumura, Ph.D. <okumura@matsusaka-u.ac.jp>

Best Regards,
Alex.


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