From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262569AbTJTPIS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262582AbTJTPIS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:08:18 -0400 Received: from www01.ies.inet6.fr ([62.210.153.201]:8646 "EHLO smtp.ies.inet6.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262569AbTJTPIR (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:08:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3F93FA5E.2020300@inet6.fr> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:08:14 +0200 From: Lionel Bouton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: konsti@ludenkalle.de Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Uncorrectable Error on IDE, significant accumulation References: <20031020132705.GA1171@synertronixx3> <3F93E728.5050908@inet6.fr> <20031020144822.GA593@synertronixx3> In-Reply-To: <20031020144822.GA593@synertronixx3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Konstantin Kletschke wrote the following on 10/20/2003 04:48 PM : > >Hm, I have the Board Revision whih also remembers its BIOS Settings once >after a while (once per month or so). Does that also belong to >"electrical defects"? > > Maybe... do you mean your CMOS settings are periodically reset ? In this case it usually is simply a worn-out battery. >So should I buy a K7S5A Pro now. It eats my old school SDRAM, thats >why... > > K7S5A Pro are dirt cheap these days, so it might be a good idea to buy a new one. For the record, reallocated sectors are quite common with modern disks, I had some (3-4) on a one-year old 120Go Maxtor but the drive worked perfectly. You should install the smartmontools and run smartd configured to send you an e-mail each time a new defect is found. You have then one more opportunity to anticipate a drive going to fail by backuping and restoring on another drive. Best regards, -- Lionel Bouton - inet6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- o Siege social: 51, rue de Verdun - 92158 Suresnes / _ __ _ Acces Bureaux: 33 rue Benoit Malon - 92150 Suresnes / /\ /_ / /_ France \/ \/_ / /_/ Tel. +33 (0) 1 41 44 85 36 Inetsys S.A. Fax +33 (0) 1 46 97 20 10