Hello,
I have downloaded the first 10 Debian Etch CDs and out of 10 ISOs, 2 or 3 had an md5sum problem. While the good md5 returns a proper checksum value, the bad ones return an Input/Output error. The problem is that when this error occurs, the link between the system and HDD is lost and no further commands are accepted as they need to be picked up from the HDD. The system blanks out and I have to force shutdown and reboot it. Yesterday I kept the Lenny live CD for download and its md5sum gave the same problem today morning.
I had mentioned this problem earlier too and the HDD was suspected. However for the good ISO checksums there is no problem whatsoever. Why can't the system decently tell me that the checksum is bad, why does it have to break all connections and crash?