Re: ext2fs corruption again

David Rees
2001-09-15T17:19:21Z

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 02:42:36PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:46:36AM +0200, Kristian wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > For about 3 weeks I sent a report that I've got very strange kernel
> > error messages.
> >
> > I changed my harddrive to IBM 75 GB because someone said that IBM's 40 GB
> > harddisks are not very stable.
>
> Just to get it out of the way, can you open your computer and check
> what country the disk is manufactured in? There has been some complaints
> on this list about IBM-disks fabricated in Hungary.

It's not just the disks made in Hungary, I've had 3 IBM drives go bad on me
in the last week after 3-4 months of operation 2 15GB 75GXPs made in
Thailand (bad sectors), 1 40GB 40GV also made in Thailand (started making
bad scratching noise, BIOS wouldn't detect it after that). Still have a
number of the 75GXPs in service, but I'm keeping my eye on them.

Kristian's problem looks like it could be hardware problems of some sort
leading to corruption.

-Dave