Re: [CentOS] Hard drive errors

["Lamar Owen" <lowen@xxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 22 September 2006 13:06, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> The problem does sound external to the disks.  Someone else suggested
> the power supply.  I wouldn't suspect both cables to have problems, so
> that's probably not an issue.

Power supply issues can do real damage to the drives, as well.  I had a pair 
of 250GB drives that have hard errorred sectors thanks to a power 
supply 'glitching' on me.  The drives still work fine otherwise, but they 
have several dozen sectors each that will never be usable.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu
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