Re: [SLE] frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?
From: Kevanf1 (kevanf1_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/03/05
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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:20:53 +0000 To: "suse-linux-e@suse.com" <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
On 03/11/05, Carlos F Lange <carlos.lange@ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university
> to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard
> disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the
> failure is (I still need to confirm one case) hardware related
> and there is no apparent pattern: they were Maxtor, Western Digital (2),
> and Seagate disks, EIDE and SATA, new and old, on Intel and
> on AMD boards, so I can't pin the blame on any particular
> brand or type.
>
> But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of
> hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department
> running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash
> while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple
> of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in
> the same period, it is starting to look bad. :(
>
> I wonder if it is just here, or if someone else also noticed higher
> number of crashes. I remember a previous thread from July,
> where people tried to blame ReiserFS and others convinced them
> it was mainly hardware. Well, hardware seems to be the case here,
> but then again, SuSE and ReiserFS were the only things in common
> among the 4 failed HDs I had in the past 4 months.
> Am I seeing things, or what?
>
> Carlos
> --
Forgive me, but how on earth could a file system be held responsible
for destroying a hard drive? I don't see how ext2, 3, ReiserFS, HFS,
FAT, NTFS or any other could damage the drive. All they are doing is
ordering the magnetic blocks of data on the platters. Aren't they?
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