> Can I suggest a bad IDE cable as a possible cause? Noise on the > cable might lead to ECC errors I'd say.
Thanks for the hint. I also came to think there might be something wrong with my IDE. And now that you mention the cable: the box is a Shuttle barebone, and the cable is a special cable (split into several parts to make it narrower) designed for that case. That does mean, I cannot try another cable, and probably it is not even defect, but the design may hold higher risk of bus errors. Now that all sounds reasonable. But - all errors so far have been quite deterministic / reproducable. And that certainly speaks against above theory, does it? I will test more of the same media (perhaps it really was by accident this one time) as well as Andy's one-time-tool (Thank you!), probably tomorrow. FL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
