[tech] the aftermath

[Michal Gornisiewicz]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:28:55AM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> The slight problem is that Michal just just been burning some more DVDs
> and he's noticed that he gets occasional bit errors copying files
> around on cybium, which probably means the VIA DMA driving is FITH. It's
> not a complete killer because the backups would still be 99% OK, but
> still... cybium should probably get a new motherboard. ::-)

It's not just _occasional_ bit errors. I couldn't copy a DVD image from
my HDD to /space on cybium without error. I didn't investigate whether
these were single bit errors like the dvd I burnt previously had, but
md5sum checks for most of the files on the iso (on /space) were failing.

I tried with & without DMA (first turned it off only for /space then
both drives), so it's not a DMA issue, unless leaving DMA on for hda
could've caused it which I doubt.

Just reading off my HDD was fine (md5sums checked out).

I ended up burning the dvd off my own HDD but I haven't looked at it
yet. Will poke moro.


MG
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