From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 28 12:56:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09522 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:56:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09506 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:56:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA27936; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:54:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:54:28 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Robert Withrow cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ATAPI: corrupted data? In-Reply-To: <199701282002.PAA01969@spooky.rwwa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.