[lug] Data integrity problems on new machine

[Alan Robertson]

Alan Robertson
> 
> 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?

And the answer is:  hardware

We tried another disk (a Maxtor): no luck

We swapped the motherboard+cpu+memory, and voila!  it works fine now.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at suse.com