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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:27:57 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To:        Helmut Hissen <helmut@zeebar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: corrupted ISO image? (maybe its just me)
Message-ID:  <20020212132757.A29413@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020212091914.B5379@zeebar.com>; from helmut@zeebar.com on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:19:14AM -0800
References:  <20020211180354.A20800@zeebar.com> <20020211234259.G24535@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020212091914.B5379@zeebar.com>

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:19:14AM -0800, Helmut Hissen wrote:
> 
> 
> it gets weirder:  its a single bit error.  If I diff the od-x for the 
> proflibs.ai in the CD image (bad) with the one I doanload separately 
> (good), I see:
> 
> 9862c9862
> < 0464120     bd1a    edc4    bd1a    c7c4    7a35    cf89    f46b    1f12
> ---
> > 0464120     bd1a    ed44    bd1a    c7c4    7a35    cf89    f46b    1f12
> 
> 
> downloaded (shift-click style) using Netscape 4.76 running on my 4.4
> no-moving-parts desktop from ftp://ftp?.freebsd.org over a 4.4 firewall 
> into a file on an NFS mount on a 4.4 file server.  
> 
> maybe I have a leaky 0x80 bit somewhere on my side???  I havent noticed 
> anything else acting up tho.  This is so weird.

One bit out of 624 MB. I'd attribute it to gremlins in the wires
and not lose any sleep over it. That is, unless you start to see it
more.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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