<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Likely, the error is with the drive. Downloading the ISO again will land the bits on different sectors, so that's what I would do. It is rare that I've had a download complete successfully with modern protocols and have it be corrupt, but for an underlying storage issue. </div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Especially when dmesg and smartctl are both reporting the same problem and is being reported from the storage driver as opposed to a specific file I/O operation failing. </div><div><br></div></div>
<div><br>On Dec 6, 2012, at 10:32 AM, FiL Farris <<a href="mailto:philipfarris@gmail.com">philipfarris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">Is this a problem with the iso or the hard disk? I am asking the veterans here (as I am interested in learning) as I would have looked at it different then what's been answered.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 6, 2012 10:27 AM, "Thomas W. cranston" <<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 12/06/2012 08:36 AM, Matt Simmons wrote:<br>
> Did smartcrl tell you how many spare sectors you have left?<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Thomas W. cranston<br>
> <<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> On 12/06/2012 06:54 AM, Judd Montgomery wrote:<br>
> > On 12/02/2012 01:45 PM, Thomas W. cranston wrote:<br>
> >> Hi<br>
> >><br>
> >> > 12:39:48 tom@1520: ~/Desktop$ md5sum<br>
> >> linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso<br>
> >> > md5sum: linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso: Input/output error<br>
> >><br>
> >> Wondering if the above indicates bad checksum, or something<br>
> wrong w/my<br>
> >> laptop?<br>
> >><br>
> > I've seen errors like that many times and it always means my hard<br>
> drive<br>
> > is going bad and the file is on a bad sector. Did you look at<br>
> dmesg or<br>
> > the syslog and see what the kernel is complaining about?<br>
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> > Judd<br>
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> Bad sector<br>
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> Ran dmesg, smartctl and others. They all indicated the same bad sector.<br>
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> Tom<br>
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I don't Know. Perhaps I do not know how to interpret the data.<br>
<br>
Looking at the man right now.<br>
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What are you getting at?<br>
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Tom<br>
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