jerome lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> 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? > no overclock > hdparm is used but I cannot tell you exactly what the config is (now > machine has been running memtest for 1.5 hour). I don't think I use > special option: probably the defaults in my config file (mult_sect 16, > dma on, write_cache off). There are combinations of IDE + disk that slowly corrupt filesystems with DMA on, if the default setting is DMA off _don't touch it_. Not all bad combinations are catched by the code in the kernel (intel + some Western Digital disk is what drove me up the wall until I disabled DMA). What machine is this, what disk? > overheating: perhaps. The machine is hot and running many hours per > day (usually 12-16). It s running the fans very often, but it's always > been like that. I've tried to control the fan, but then the > temperature goes high very quickly. So I let the fans run. Wise decision. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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/
