Previously Scott <Scott@post.any.replies> wrote:
It is o.k.. 40 pin cables will slows some devices down (usually
HDDs), but they do not influence whether error checking is used on the
bus or not.

No. The buses are electrically separated. Otherwise they would not work
at all.

Maybe you should have a look at your memory. These errors sound
more like corruption in memory to me than problems on the IDE-bus.
Memtets-86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) is a good tool for this.

Regards,
Arno



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