RE: crc error

["David Turetsky" <davidturetsky@earthlink.net>]

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 18:59, David Turetsky wrote:

   ... Crc error ... System halted
  
   I believe crc is 'cyclic redundancy check' which I take to mean a
hard
   drive read error
  
   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?

>>> Nicos replied:

   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.

>>> David:

    My data is completely backup up at present and my plans are
    to use the linux partition for utilities. The problem never presents
    itself when I boot up under a Windows environment, and at least for
    this afternoon, when I allow lilo to just time out and select linux,
    the crc check doesn't present itself. But this has been going on for
    about two years (previously running Potato), so it makes one wonder
    whether it is indeed portending a hardware failure
  
    I was using mutt as my mailer but I'm not yet fully set up on my
    linux box. In the meantime, vim to the rescue