I've got an old P200 that I keep around for odd jobs. Recently, I hooked it into my home network, and started to transfer some large(ish) files (10-600MB). Some of these were archives, and after transfer a few of them failed CRC checks. Thinking that I might be getting some sort of corruption because of the network (cables, card, etc.) I burned a set of the files onto a CD, checked them on the CD, then copied them to the P200 off the CD. Again, intermittent CRC failures on the files (not necessarily the same files each time I tried copying them). Ran Norton Disk Doctor with a thorough surface scan and came up empty. Next, I wiped the drive (a 3 gig WD IDE drive) and started clean. Same problem. Then, I swapped out the drive for a Quantum 3.5 gig IDE drive (also wiped clean with fresh reinstall of Win98). Still getting the same problems. Wondered if something was wrong with the CRC checking, so instead I tried using FC in a DOS window. Again, intermittent mismatches between a copied file and its original.
A possibly interesting point: I tried to replicate the problem by creating and transferring via the network some large ASCII files (basically, the letter "a" over and over again for ~30MB). These files don't seem to experience corruption (according to FC).
Ideas anyone? At the moment I'm thinking it's the IDE controller on the motherboard, but I don't have another controller to plug in to test the theory. Could it be something else?
System specs (pick a hard drive from above):
P200 (not MMX)
ASUS P55TP4XE
48MB RAM
ATI Xpert98
Memorex 48x CD-ROM
generic 3.5" floppy
Ensoniq Soundscape Elite
Farallon NetLINE 10/100 ethernet card
Win98 (not SE)
A possibly interesting point: I tried to replicate the problem by creating and transferring via the network some large ASCII files (basically, the letter "a" over and over again for ~30MB). These files don't seem to experience corruption (according to FC).
Ideas anyone? At the moment I'm thinking it's the IDE controller on the motherboard, but I don't have another controller to plug in to test the theory. Could it be something else?
System specs (pick a hard drive from above):
P200 (not MMX)
ASUS P55TP4XE
48MB RAM
ATI Xpert98
Memorex 48x CD-ROM
generic 3.5" floppy
Ensoniq Soundscape Elite
Farallon NetLINE 10/100 ethernet card
Win98 (not SE)
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