> Hi Roman
>
> Many thanks for the advice. However, I already run CMP with the optiions enable
> that you mentioned. I am now beginning to think that it is a drive (or some
> other HW problem), as I moved my GBA ROM directory to another drive and
> everything seems to be OK. Can't understand it though - I would expect a 6
> month old SATA drive to run without errors for longer than this.
>
> Anyhow, Many Thanks
>
> -= The Ade =-
>


I doubt it's directly a hd failure....maybe just the cable is bad....or not well isolated from others.

RAM or RAM timing could be another reason...If you use an overclocked system, run it at the normal speed. But if you successfully tested it on the same PC just on another drive, it may be a controller or cable issue.

or some write-cache issue (I remember such with some Maxtor models under W2k...)....disable it if you can.



Roman Scherzer