On Monday 01 Sep 2008 10:22, Rony wrote: > Hello, > > I have downloaded the first 10 Debian Etch CDs and out of 10 ISOs, > 2 or 3 had an md5sum problem. While the good md5 returns a proper > checksum value, the bad ones return an Input/Output error.
You are checking the iso or a burned cd?. > The > problem is that when this error occurs, the link between the system > and HDD is lost and no further commands are accepted as they need > to be picked up from the HDD. Your Hdd IS BAD. > The system blanks out and I have to > force shutdown and reboot it. Yesterday I kept the Lenny live CD > for download and its md5sum gave the same problem today morning. > > I had mentioned this problem earlier too and the HDD was suspected. > However for the good ISO checksums there is no problem whatsoever. > Why can't the system decently tell me that the checksum is bad, why > does it have to break all connections and crash? Because the drive is bad. If you tail the logs you will see this error ad-nausem. However the system does recover - after a couple of hours. This is true afaik only if your bad partition is not needed by the OS. Must mail the disk io guys about some sane timeout. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
