[lug] Data integrity problems on new machine

[Alan Robertson]

George Sexton wrote:
> 
> You might want to run hdparm and see what the settings are, and back off to
> less aggressive ones.

I looked.  Everything is as unaggressive as you can imagine.
> 
> What kernel version are you running?

The 2.2.16 that comes with SuSE Linux 7.0.

> George Sexton
> MH Software, Inc.
> Voice: 303 438 9585

	Thanks George!

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at suse.com
> http://www.mhsoftware.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Alan Robertson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:12 PM
> To: Boulder LUG
> Subject: [lug] Data integrity problems on new machine
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running an ASUS A7V motherboard with a 800MHZ Athlon, an IBM IDE hard
> drive (master on 1st IDE controller), a RealTek SCSI controller with a Ecrix
> tape drive, a Mitsumi CDR/RW drive (master on 2nd IDE) a 52X IDE CD-ROM
> (slave on 2nd IDE).
> 
> Here's my problem:
> 
> When I copy a CD to disk, I always get compare errors at random spots.
> 
> When I checksum the CD I always get the same answer
> 
> When I back up from disk to tape (dump/restore), and then restore from tape,
> the data being restored is incorrect.
> 
> So, what's the cause of these data integrity problems on this brand new
> machine?
> 
>         Thanks!
> 
>         -- Alan Robertson
>            alanr at suse.com
> 
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