If you have any diagnostic programs that came with your system, you might want to run a surface scan and see what comes back from that. Sometimes the act of restarting the system (especially from a cold start) is enough to flush whatever cruft is in memory, cache, etc.
Just a thought... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: April 19, 2009 11:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: e2fsck question On Sunday 19 April 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> And even more important, should I be asking for an RMA from Maxtor? > >If it's still in warranty, you're seeing filesystem errors, and SMART >is indicating that your filesystem errors are caused by hardware >problems, then you should be calling Maxtor. > >Drives go bad, and all of the system-level tools in the world are >basically helpless to prevent it :( > >Dustin >From the progress its reporting, I'll have to cancel the amanda run tonight as it won't be done. In an 1:10:30, its telling me 3.44% done. The drive is about 120 days old now. Thanks Dustin. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. -- Voltaire This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
