files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?

2000-01-16 Thread Dan Christensen
Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file, two consecutive bytes are changed to 160 and 192 (240 300 octal). Moreover, this often

Re: files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?

2000-01-16 Thread Scott Henry
D == Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very D strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from D cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the file, D two consecutive bytes are changed to

Re: files appear corrupt, but aren't; kernel bug?

2000-01-16 Thread Dan Christensen
Scott Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D == Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D Over the past few hours, my potato machine has been behaving very D strangely. Many of the files on my hard drive or which I read from D cdrom have minor errors. Specifically, at a random point in the