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SubjectRe: Possible hardware failure? Cryptic kernel messages...
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Noah Beck wrote:

> I've never seen those sorts of errors without bad hardware present.
> I would:

Well, it was a brand new drive in my case. It looks like it starts doing
it under heavy activity and once it gets into that state, nothing will
clear it except a hard power cycle. The reset button will not even clear
the fault in the drive.

>
> Back up the data on the disk as much as possible (I suspect you'll
> get read errors around that sector).


BTW, I backed it up, did a badblocks scan, it reported no errors, I
restored the data and it ran for 3 days and did the same thing again.

It looks like I am learning not to trust the manufacturers low-level
format.

George Bonser
Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals.
http://www.debian.org
Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.


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