On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:24:38PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> On 2003-03-03, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
>
> > Yesterday my linux hang so that I had to reset it, then fsck failed
> > and hang and then the partiotion table got broken :-(. It seems that
> > there is a physical problem with the drive, it's giving "short read
> > error"s.
> >
> Since I now need to by a new one (40GB+), could somebody advice me
> what disk brands/models won't fail in short time :-).
>
If this is under warranty I would also try to claim for it. In
addition, don't under estimate the option to return it directly to the
manufacturer if there is one. This would probably lead you to verify
your suspicion for a broken HD by using the manufacturer tools. Just to
demonstrate my attitude to the return to the manufacturer option, if
this is a valid option indeed but you, for some reason, won't carry then
I will be glad to be given such a HD. It could be that other people on
the list would be willing to actually pay for it (for myself I used the
word given).
> I'm afraid that's too OT (since linux supports pretty much all drives
> ;-), so here is a related question: what measures (short of RAID)
> could I use to reduce the risk of disk errors? I'm starting to be
> annoyed by them, every time it takes long to recover and then not
> always all is recovered... Are some filesystems (reiser?) less
> fragile than others? I'd like to protect the /home are (yes, I backup
> by Unison, replicating important things on several computers but I
> wonder what other means exist).
>
In case there is a some correlation between damaged fs and power
failures you might consider a UPS. As far as I know modern HD have self
recovery feature by exploiting reserved sectors which are put by the
manufacturer just for that purpose. Once the reserved sectors run out
you start to get non repairable HD failures.
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