"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned: > > Hi All. > > > > My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it. ...> > Um, you do realize that if the hard drive is causing fsck to blow > chunks, it's because the hard drive is defective and needs to be > replaced, right?
Actually not. There is no implication that the disk driver is going bad, just that the data on the disk really corrupted. The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA. **Rob: If you are using IDE disks (if you don't know that you have SCSI disks, you most surely have IDE disks), you should immediately disable DMA. (E.g., add "ide=nodma" to your kernel command line. Where you can set your kernel command line depends on how you boot.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
