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On Monday 09 February 2004 04:52, JG wrote: >hi, > >> I have had the same exact errors.. and i have RMA'ed two disks... >> already. i just thought it was bad luck.. >> >> i power down properly and i dont think its power surges, since i >> am in school and it only happens to me. i would expect my >> neighbors to have problems too. > >really strange, me too. >now...hm, it all started when i upgraded from kernel 2.4.19 to 2.6.0 > in late decemeber, the system worked very fine for a week or so > (having great response times!) but then all of a sudden the > problems started. 2 disks died. then my gigabit network card was > only able to transmit 200kb/s (but this was really a hardware > problem, a new card is working fine again, well...). a week later > the next disks are having problems and i have yet to RMA three > disks. and now the next two disks..., i'm getting insane ;) i can't > see any EXT3 error anymore *g* the next disks will be reiserfs only > to see other error messages ;) well, but that doesn't solve the > problem of 6 disks within 2 months...this is so unlikely. > >JG This thread seems to be related to a slashdot story about a mis-formulated epoxy-b that went into production circa 18-20 months ago. It contains a time bomb chemical reaction involving trace anounts of red phosphorus, and is said to be the reason all HD makers went to a 1 year warranty. You may have to google for the story now as I don't have a record of the link, sorry. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - 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/ | |||||||||
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