On Friday January 10 2003 04:32 pm, ivette brusselmans wrote:
> Did this at least 10 times. Always get the same answer : download
> failed due to multiple CRC failures.
> What could be the cause?
CRC (cylical redundancy checks) are used in data transmission to
verify the data's integrity. CRC is used over d/l connections, but
it is also used by other data tranmissions and devices, including
hard drives. Western Digtal hard drives can't, and failing drives
often don't perform proper CRC checks. Some motherboard chipsets with
certain combinations of peripheals (AGP cards, high bandwidth PCI
devices, eg, SB Live!), also occaisonally perform bad CRC checks.
Cables that need replacing or re-seating can also cause CRC errors.
So the problem could be many things, but most likely a bad file,
bad d/l connection, or hardware problems. Try using a different d/l
application than the one you've been using, specially if you were
usin a browser, and specially if the browser was Nutsrcape. NS is
infamous for corupting d/l's. IMO, the safest bet would be to use
'wget' or 'curl' from the command line in a terminal to get the file.
If you still have a problem with the file, try tar'g or zip'n up
the contents of a several hundred MB directory, creating the new
archive on a different partition, and preferably to a partition on a
different hard drive. This is easy to do with Archiver (ark). If the
new archive will unpack and the files match your originals it's a
good indication (but not proof) you aren't havin hardware problems.
IE, the HDD's, the motherboard (chipsets and controllers), the cables
will have done their job properly.
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