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Originally Posted by bgeddy
Do you think the area of memory used for a disk buffer and subsequent CRC algorithm may be causing a `hiccup` ?
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Yeah, that's what I was implying. So first check in my book would be running MemTest off UBCD so it gets at least 1 "pass" without errors, that would eliminate RAM as the problem. Then there are numerous other test programs available, e.g. hard drive test tools from various manufacturers, and so on.
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Originally Posted by bgeddy
Don't take this the wrong way but I'm glad someone else has had these glitches and it has proved not to be so bad (i.e. fatal)!!
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Well, I haven't had that glitch specifically, but a friend of mine had a similar kind of problem with hash fails on a torrent and that turned out to be RAM. Like I said, if it was the hard drive you could reasonably expect it to happen pretty much all of the time. Once a hard drive sector is caput, generally that's it for that sector, but RAM can get allocated differently on different boots.
However, it is very odd that the error only appeared once you upgraded. I assume you verified the newer Slackware downloads. Maybe try booting off a Slackware disc (the prompt at the start typically has something like "in a pinch, you can boot an install by...") and see if that works fine. I don't really know what that would eliminate though...