William T Wilson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Jason Belich wrote:
>
> > On my RH5.0 box, my compressed files tend to be corrupted. I get
> > "Invalid compressed data --crc error" with my gzips about 2/3 of the
> > time. I've reinstalled gzip several times BTW, no luck.
>
> My guess is it's a CPU or RAM problem. Corrupt compressed files is often
> the result of poor mathematical skills on the part of your system. As
> with all minor hardware errors, you are going to see intermittent and
> not-entirely-predictable problems. IF you're overclocking, stop. If you
> have a Pentium with the FPU bug, get it fixed. If you have a Cyrix/AMD
> CPU, off brand motherboard, you might have the problem there. If you are
> mixing RAM types or using RAM your motherboard is not designed to handle,
> that's almost certainly the problem. Could be almost anything.
>
> The fact that it afflicts both Win95 and Linux indicates that it is almost
> certainly a hardware problem.
>
but would I not have other errors? I'm getting no other errors, that I
can tell. If you are correct, what other errors should I be looking
for?
BTW, the 95 and linux boxen are different boxen, but the linux box is a
PPro 200 256Kcache on a Gigabyte 440FX chipset board, two HDs, a Quantum
FWSCSI2 2.1 gig, and a seagate 4.3 gig UWSCSI w/ 80pin SCA connector,
all on an adaptec 2940 FWSCSI2 card. (i'm not sure of models and
firmware revs off the top of my head)
TIA
Jason Belich
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