Odd CRC errors and md5 mis-matches - any ideas?
Hey!
I am having a very odd problem that I am unable to solve. I have a box setup at home which is a file-print server, running woody. When I try to copy large files to it, the files tend to get CRC errors. So at first I thought it was my network, so I did some testing. I made a CD image, and rar'ed it into about 50 rars. Then tried to uncompress them. I had to run the process several times before it finally worked - every time I ran it a different file would fail with a CRC error. But when I would run it again, the initial erratic file would uncompress fine but another would then break.
Today, I tried to download the potato image (I did it directly from the server so I would not have to copy it over the network once it finished), and when I ran rsync, it would complain about the ISO being corrupt. So after running rsync about 5 times and having it fail each time I decided to check out the md5 checksum on the file. The value I got obviously was not correct. Then I ran md5sum again, and I got a different (still incorrect) value! In fact, each time I run it I get different values.
Does anyone know why this is happening? I have been having the CRC problems for a while, but upon discovering this I decided that I have had enough. I have 2 other machines running woody and neither have this problem...
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated... Thanks,
-Pete
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