On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:34:20PM +0300, Arto Huusko wrote:
> [...]
> 
> I'm wondering whether the built in IDE disk even is faulty.
> If it were that faulty, shouldn't the IDE subsystem be reporting
> CRC errors etc. instead of just silently (and randomly) returning
> wrong data?

Not with the built-in controller, because it doesn't do UltraDMA.
But data corruption on the bus usually leads to other problems, including
problems in the filesystem

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