In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I halted the machine correctly yesterday night. I never dropped the > box in 3 years. Am I just being unlucky? Or could the fact that I am > using Linux on the box affect the reliability in some ways on that > particular hardware (Dell Inspiron 8100)? I run Linux on 3 other > computers and never had single problems with them.
There are a lot of possible problems with your actual hardware. Like Interrupt handling, power control, dma, ... Those are seldom but possible. Notebooks tend to require some special handling. > Could a hardware failure look like bad sectors to fsck? A failure of the bus or a former sporadic error can cause defective fs, but normally you have a read error in fsck no structure error. Are you using hdparm? is the system perhaps overheating or overclocked? Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
