On Monday 03 February 2003 05:27 am, tarvid wrote: > 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. > Hey Jim, I would agree with you on the hardware. Any chance you are using an ATI card? I had an ATI Radeon all in wonder and had all kinds of weird problems. The worst was it would run for a week to 10 days and totally trash my hard drive data. I took back motherboards, drives... until someone suggested I go to Nvidia. Not a single problem since. ?? > Jim Tarvid
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