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SubjectRe: ext2 errors
tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:

> If the errors show up randomly, it could be an issue with the interface;
> if they're consistant, the drive is toast.

Not always. I have seen an unterminated SCSI bus to produce consistent errors
on the same block number. Seemingly the block contained some quite 'reflection
inducing' bit pattern. Morale: Always double check on another computer, before
you scrap a 'defect' drive.

Froh

--
Frohwalt Egerer

A full discussion of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle may be found
in the Appendix. Then again, it may not.

-- http://www.neosoft.com/~kmac/sms/matter.htm

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