Lan Barnes wrote: > On Wed, October 3, 2007 11:24 pm, Bob La Quey wrote: > >> PS. I find it quite odd to be giving such a suggestion to >> someone with your experience. Surely you know this. No attack >> intended but this is just simple logic, isn't it? Or am I >> missing something truly fundamental? >> > > you're right, of course, but I think (for me, anyway) that experienced > people also have intuitions that deserve to be checked first. > > However experience can lead to different intuitions. I guessed Myth. Gus > guessed HW/PS. The OP guessed memory. All seem to me pretty good guesses, > worthy of a test (Myth and SW in general is harder to pin down, so "HW > first" is not a bad reminder). > > Just a soft defense of the OP. >
Just adding a second to the idea (DJA?) of running the disk manufacturer's diagnostic on the drive. If it fails on the actual system, it is highly desirable to repeat the test by moving the disk to another system. I have seen several cases where the MoBo was the cause problems (especially dma errors). Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
