Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261947AbVBDL2R (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 06:28:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261707AbVBDL2R (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 06:28:17 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.199]:42616 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261947AbVBDL2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 06:28:09 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=gLo4y6ITZ6JyBA4PDTe4/R50u8TcKuxRwrH0BLLLi+2pwvewxPlTlFzCn9DkayHQZByN4b1wxPkaKXebXOxhz0ZxPH7DEDg3tB9f0tWMg78gpXbltzgVo3dvLys3QcEH6xCtxjA7974ajc021NiPiZZmiVm8bjlIa96voUG3pwg= Message-ID: <5a2cf1f60502040328aaf6c9f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:28:07 +0100 From: jerome lacoste Reply-To: jerome lacoste To: Bernd Eckenfels Subject: Re: Huge unreliability - does Linux have something to do with it? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <5a2cf1f605020401037aa610b9@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1029 Lines: 22 >> Could a hardware failure look like bad sectors to fsck? > > A failure of the bus or a former sporadic error can cause defective fs, but > normally you have a read error in fsck no structure error. > > Are you using hdparm? is the system perhaps overheating or overclocked? no overclock hdparm is used but I cannot tell you exactly what the config is (now machine has been running memtest for 1.5 hour). I don't think I use special option: probably the defaults in my config file (mult_sect 16, dma on, write_cache off). overheating: perhaps. The machine is hot and running many hours per day (usually 12-16). It s running the fans very often, but it's always been like that. I've tried to control the fan, but then the temperature goes high very quickly. So I let the fans run. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/