<div>I've seen this with image files stored on hard drives before. Seems to be more apparent with larger files. In the several GB range. In the past I've created a sum, then verified it instantly to find it fail. :/</div>
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<div>-Mike<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chad Ziccardi</b> <<a href="mailto:cz@digitalfreaks.org">cz@digitalfreaks.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 20:55 -0400, Christopher DeMarco wrote:<br>> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 07:20:52PM -0400, Bob Supansic wrote:
<br>><br>> > Same CD, four different sums, two of which were from the same<br>> > device. What am I to believe?<br>><br>> Well, *this* is interesting :)<br>><br>> I've no idea what's going on, but I will make this observation: During
<br>> installation many distros will verify the md5sum of the installation<br>> media (presumably CD-ROM). It stands to reason that the MD5 checksum<br>> of a CD-ROM shouldn't vary among [correctly-functioning] drives, or
<br>> this "media check" would be useless.<br><br>We recently had some failed the md5sum media checks on brand new media<br>from a vendor, upon cleaning the media and smacking the drive, they then<br>passed the md5sum media checks and we were able to install.
<br><br>Of course we first tried it in multiple drives, and same issue, so I<br>guess something on the media's surface was the problem.<br><br><br>--<br>Chad Ziccardi<br><a href="mailto:cz@digitalfreaks.org">cz@digitalfreaks.org
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