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Re: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
- From: "Cliff Hones" <cliff at aonix dot co dot uk>
- To: "Kevin Van Workum" <vanw at nist dot gov>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:58:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
- Organization: Aonix Europe
- References: <3F954302.7070109@nist.gov>
Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> I've been having some mysterious problems when trying to delete some
> files in my cygwin home directory. It might not be a cygwin problem at
> all, maybe hardware. But I thought I'd start here since the problem is
> isolated to my cygwin directory.
>
> It takes about 10-20 seconds for "ls" to print the file list. From a DOS
> prompt "dir" prints the same list, hangs for 5 seconds and says "File
> not found". If I try to "del" a file from the DOS prompt, I get an
> error: "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)". It seems to only happen
> when deleting .* files.
>
> Any ideas? Might this be a hardware problem or related to cygwin?
Sounds most likely to be hardware to me, and that should most certainly
be ruled out first anyway. Assuming this is a local hard disk, you should
run scandisk on it (right-click the drive; select properties, then error-checking
under tools). Since you may have a data error anywhere on the disk you should
select "scan for bad sectors" [These are NT instructions; 9x/2k/XP may be
subtly different.]
In all probability this is OT for Cygwin.
-- Cliff
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