On Friday 01 Apr 2005 23:58, Jess Anderson wrote: > I'm having ongoing crashes and unrepeatable errors in > routine scripts. Memory has checked out find repeatedly, > so is not especially suspect. > > My current prime suspect is the hard disk system, either > the onboard SATA controller (VIA), the disk drive itself > (Maxtor) or the OS (FC3). > > I can show that data on the disk has changed since it was > written, that is, originally it was correct but now it > is wrong -- a date field that was "1998" is now "19)8". > > Could I be looking at a bad block, perhaps? If I understand > the man page for e2fsck, I can do a nondestructive mapping > out of bad blocks by doing > > e2fsck -c -c /dev/sda<n> > > for <n> corresponding to my non-swap, non-/boot partitions > (booting from the rescue disk, of course). > > Is that right? I'm open to other suggestions as to how to > track this down as definitively as possible, and if the drive > checks out what to try next. > > (Because I've never had *any* hardware problems before, i.e., > since 1986, I'm kind of a newbie about such stuff.) > > Any and all help appreciated. > > -- > [] I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. > [] You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at > [] a young age. > [] -- Chris Evert Lloyd, 1954- > -- > * Copyright 2005 Jess Anderson > * www.jessanderson.org * anderson@xxxxxxxx > * Window Maker Themes: www.jessanderson.org/wmthemes Last time I kept getting unexplained errors and crashes, I eventually found a screw dropped behind the motherboard! Advice I've been given, is to check your power supply. I'm told that the voltage provided by cheap power supplies can be a bit unstable, which of course causes problems. So instead of spending £15 on a power supply I spent £50, and bought a UPS as well. Dave
