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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
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 dr
also sprach cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.14.1057 +0200]:
> > 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 Fre
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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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
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 sh
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
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, 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 tha
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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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
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