Hi, On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:30:38PM +0100, Ed W wrote: > > This is why sometimes people will simply replace a disk on a drop of > > the hat as soon as they start seeing soft errors (i.e., warnings from > > the disk that there were read errors that were correctable using ECC), > > never mind the hard errors which you're clearly seeing here. Their > > Actually, quick follow up question. If any, where should I see soft errors, > or hard errors reported? I am on a stock redhat 7.2 install. Soft errors tend to be dealt with silently in the hard disk. Smartctl can help report that. Anything else will be in /var/log/messages. > Is it feasible that the hard errors I noted *could* have been caused by a > hard freeze on a machine running ext3. Partial writes, etc? No, that shouldn't ever cause a disk sector to fail. There are some modern IBM drives which are reported to leave unremapped bad sectors behind if power fails at the wrong moment, though. --Stephen
