I'd appreciate if you would not CC me, as I request in the
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It could be a bad controller on the motherboard and
it sounds like it. You may be damaging hard drives with
a bad mootherboard.
Right, but using five different machines?
My
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, martin f krafft wrote:
Folks,
Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE
Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive
faults. I know about IDE and that it's consumer quality and no
more, but it can't be the case that the
On Monday 14 July 2003 10:48, Pigeon wrote:
I've been mad for years, absolutely f**king years, I've been over the
edge for yonks. :-)
All Pink Floyd fans are anyway ;)
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I've been mad for years, absolutely f**king years, I've been over the
edge for yonks. :-)
All Pink Floyd fans are anyway ;)
I beg to differ. We are normal, the rest is mad!
Aside, I believe that my reference to Uncle Freddie
martin f krafft wrote:
problems), got the machine back into a running state, then ran
`badblocks -svw` on the disk. And usually, I'd see a number of bad
blocks, usually in excess of 100.
Modern IDE and SCSI drives fix the bad blocks using
the on chip microprocessor and give you a prefect
Folks,
Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE
Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive
faults. I know about IDE and that it's consumer quality and no
more, but it can't be the case that the failure rate is that high.
The drives are mostly made by
What is weird is that S.M.A.R.T. reports no errors on most drives.
I use the smartmontools, and even long offline tests don't produce
any error information.
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On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 06:51, martin f krafft wrote:
Folks,
Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE
Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive
faults. I know about IDE and that it's consumer quality and no
more, but it can't be the case that the
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:18, martin f krafft wrote:
What is weird is that S.M.A.R.T. reports no errors on most drives.
I use the smartmontools, and even long offline tests don't produce
any error information.
Martin,
Try checking the drives on yet another machine; How old are these
machines ?
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:51:23PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
Folks,
Over the past year, I have replaced something around 20 IDE
Harddrives in 5 different computers running Debian because of drive
faults. I know about IDE and that it's consumer quality and no
more, but it can't be the
Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some drives can, in fact do bad sector remapping on the fly.
By some drives, you mean all drives sold in the last 10 years, right?
However, manually finding bad blocks on a drive is no real cause for
concern. When a bad sector is found, it should
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