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MikeGayner

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#16179 27-Sep-2007 19:17
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I've spent a lot of time and bandwidth downloading some large files (linux distros etc) lately from torrents, and they keep coming out corrupted. Azureus and utorrent say they're OK when I force a recheck, and the rar'd ones unrar just fine, but the ISO files cannot be burned or mounted. Is this likely to be due to having interleaving turned off? I would have though torrent files with their rigorous checks would be ok, but perhaps not.

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  #88376 27-Sep-2007 19:21
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Possible they were corrupted before you downloaded them?

Have you tried some regular ftp/http downloads of the isos, and if so, had any problems there?









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  #88377 27-Sep-2007 19:22
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No the files are fine at the other end - I havent had any problems with http and ftp downloads, but I dont really download large files via http/ftp, except the odd game demo, which has always been fine.

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  #88415 27-Sep-2007 21:47
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If it un-rar's fine, then there's no corruption there unless someone is able to corrupt in a way that each piece passes checks, which is above the skillset of any antipiracy nutter.

When I had issues with spontaneously corrupting files, it was ram issues.




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  #88427 27-Sep-2007 22:22
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Also each piece of the torrent has a hash to check against.

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  #88431 27-Sep-2007 22:33
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I've realised that all the files that are corrupting are on my new hard drive - I think I'll investigate some hardware issues, because it does seem odd that they should pass the has check, and unrar, but have issues with mounting and burning.

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