Why CRC errors?

[blkmage]

I've been getting random CRC errors when I load up any kernel. It started with 2.6.8-r1, then 2.6.8-r3. Eventually, I switched back to 2.6.7-r13 but after two weeks of smooth sailing, it hit again. I have no idea what to do. I'm running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r13 and using lilo as my bootloader.

[shooraijin]

Got a dmesg?

[blkmage]

Attached.

[shooraijin]

That doesn't look too wild. Any hardware changes? Possibility of a bad drive?

My NetBSD Power Mac started throwing bizarre filesystem errors which turned out to be a faulty power connection to the main drive.

[LorentzForce]

I also accuse the power to the hard drive. I often get weird errors when the power plug to the hard drive is faulty. I fixed it by firmly fixing the plug in rather than dippy-dooply pluging it it.

Or just bad hard drive itself. Reformatting it should help.

[blkmage]

I've just got some new info.

It appears that around every two weeks my system crashes, bringing along with it the CRC errors and kernel messing up things. After everything is back to normal, nothing out of the ordinary happens. I can restart without having it error on me. It's just that special two week thing.

[Mithrandir]

Probably a no brainer, but is there a certain time of day it crashes? If so, you may want to check heat, but also see if your power is dirty (my parent's sprinklers came on once and brownouted my room long enough to kill one of my linux boxen, back in the day).