Hi Matthias, >No way fsck caused these. The problems were there, you just did not see >them, because you did not read the defective blocks before. Unless the >drive has suffered inadequate treatment, (dropped, computer kicked or >bumped into, overheat) better return it for warranty repair or >replacement pretty soon; assuming it was bought in Germany, after 6 >months after purchase, YOU may have to prove the drive was defective on >delivery, before that, the dealer will have to prove it was intact if he >is to refuse warranty repair. > Is there a difference in the way reiserfs formats as opposed to ext2/3? Your mentioning the defective blocks were never read before reminds me of the fact that a Reiserfs format is much quicker than any other filesystem's format - does it mean anything? Perhaps it is good practice to run 'badblocks' before any initial format... if there is no option to format/scan or something.
>next time the block is written again. What drive type is this? (to find >that out, use: cat /proc/ide/hda/model) > > This one is a MAXTOR 6L080J4. But I've seen these 'dma' issues with *all* my other drives as well (IBM-DTLA-307045, FUJITSU MPE3136AH) on different PCs with Intel and Via motherboards. But honestly, I treat my drives very nicely... I swear :-) - Gerrit
