Re: crc error

[Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de>]

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 18:59, David Turetsky wrote:
> When I boot under linux, periodically (occasionally under Potato,
> frequently now that I've installed a fresh copy of Woody) I get
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> Boot: (linux selected)
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> Loading Linux???????? (24, count ?em)
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> W07
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> W07
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> Uncompressing Linux?
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> Crc error
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> System halted
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> I believe crc is ?cyclic redundancy check? which I take to mean a hard
> drive read error
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> Does this imply that my IBM Deskstar 32gb hdd, a friend these last 3 ½
> years,  is increasingly showing symptoms of Alzheimer?s disease? Am I
> indeed unwise to continue to use it and should instead install linux on
> one of my newer drives? Or can some lilo (or other) setting be tweaked
> to resolve this?

Considering that this is the worst startup error I've seen on this list yet 
and the type and age of the disk, I'd consider shopping for a new one in any 
case. The "workaround" of power cycling the machine is another hint toward a 
technical failure, so get your important stuff off that drive.

And stop using Outlook, please! Not because I hate MS but because the 
formatting (searching polite word..... none found.) stinks.

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