cyclic redundancy check???

[Carl]

What does this eror message mean?
"Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)"

[Will Denny]

Hi

It's a type of error detection. Where are you seeing the error message?

Will

"Carl" > wrote in message =
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> What does this eror message mean?
> "Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)"


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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

This error usually means that the diskette is defective, but it
can also happen if the read/write heads of the drive that created the
diskette aren't aligned the same as the drive that's trying to read
the diskette. The head alignment difference is most common when
there's a large difference in the age of the floppy drives.


Bruce Chambers

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"Carl" > wrote in message
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> What does this eror message mean?
> "Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)"

[Sharon F]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:14:53 -0600, Bruce Chambers wrote:

> Greetings --
>
> This error usually means that the diskette is defective, but it
> can also happen if the read/write heads of the drive that created the
> diskette aren't aligned the same as the drive that's trying to read
> the diskette. The head alignment difference is most common when
> there's a large difference in the age of the floppy drives.
>
>
> Bruce Chambers

Have also seen it appear with damaged zip files.

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