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From: "Eric Bickle" <ebickle@healthspace.ca>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem: IDE data corruption with VIA chipsets on2.4.20-19.8+others
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:11:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001401c37898$78d47ee0$5d74ad8e@hyperwolf> (raw)

> Other than to tell you Linux is simply reporting back what the drive
> itself reported - which is a physical failure to recover a sector of
> data no.
>
> A test that rewrites such a sector will generally clear the error, its
> one of the problems of some diagnostic tools. A pure read test should
> fine the error again unless its something like overheat causing the
> problem. SMART data will tell you drive temperatures


Thanks for the info, I'll try to dig up some better diagnostic tools. I
definately appreciate the quick response!

Thanks again,
-Eric Bickle


             reply	other threads:[~2003-09-11 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-11 19:11 Eric Bickle [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-12 11:45 Problem: IDE data corruption with VIA chipsets on2.4.20-19.8+others John Bradford
2003-09-12 11:19 Roman Kagan
2003-09-11 18:20 Eric Bickle
2003-09-11 18:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-12  8:14   ` Rogier Wolff
2003-09-12 10:44     ` Alan Cox

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