Re: ide drive dying?

From: Daniel Egger (degger@fhm.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 07:34:44 EST


Am Fre, 2002-09-06 um 22.32 schrieb Alan Cox:

> Its a status entry direct from the drive. The drive says "uncorrectable
> error" which means there is a media problem. Its nothing to do with
> Linux

According to IBM tech staff it is an OS problem because the data
transfer to the drive got corrupted somehow and thus the drive forgot
about the sectors.

I was just laughing my ass off when I heard this, especially after
the 4th drive failing within a short period of time with the same
guy calling me on my cell phone and telling me the same shite over
and over again...
 

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel


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