From: dancy@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ahmon Dancy) Subject: Re: Is Linux tough on HardWare ? (CRC error on root-floppy). Date: 16 May 1993 18:12:02 GMT
In article <1993May14.080224.22831@odin.diku.dk> nomann@diku.dk (Ole Nomann Thomsen) writes:
>When installing Linux, either from the root/boot -set, or from the SLS
>a<n> disks, I get some errors like
>"floppy0 data CRC error track: 0 head: 0 sector <x>"
>where x is between 1 and 18, and the installation fails with various
>interesting results (when I boot on the installation i made with SLS
I get errors like this often when I use Linux with both of my disk
drives (i.e., cp /a/* /tmp and then switching to another window and
doing cp /b/* /tmp, for example). Nothing ever breaks, everything
copies well, but the errors continue until one drive is no longer in
use. I don't know if this is just my controller or what. I figure
Linux doesn't wait long enough between drive accesses or something
but it's no big deal because it tries several times to read and it
gets its data eventually.