On Monday 03 February 2003 03:40 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > Vincent Danen wrote: > > Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and > > with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can > > we fix it? You presume too much. > > > > Tell us what got "clobbered". My 9.0 machines, with all updates > > applied, are rock solid. > > Alas! My reply was inadvertenly attached to James Sparenburgs's > message below. My apologies. > > All Linux partitions on both machines worked perfectly for about 6 > months after > expert installation. Then these problems started appearing on 3 of the > partitions. > > Interestingly, a reinstall did not fix anything, like it does with > Windows 98 > (but _NOT_ always) - which is a serious requirements or design problem with > the Mandrake installer.
I had two Mandrake Linux systems fail with disk in a horrible state in the past six months. Both were SiS AMD boards, the last a K7S6A (SiS745). Both hard disks came back to life with a low level format (One an IBM ATA 100 40GB drive, the other a Maxtor). I replaced the motherboard in the first system and have used it as a developoment machine/workstation for months without incident. The second system I reloaded with (gasp!) W2K which appeared to go well but within a week started acting flaky. Software installations failed, and simple tasks like burning CDs showed instability in disk throughput (fluctuating) buffer levels). After replacing the motherboard in the second system with a VIA chipset board (MS6378), the system appears to be rock solid. I am convinced that hardware is a factor in many bug reports. If bug reports included motherboard/CPU/diskdrive we might spot a correlation in a matter of weeks. Jim Tarvid
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