On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 03:37, Aaron Trumm wrote: > I'm still kind of curious as to the CAUSE of this problem. I didn't expect > that an ardour crash could corrupt the file system or maybe even the > physical disk, and that's what started the mess - unless that was a > coincidence... hmmm... > Most likely it is a coincidence. It seems quite unlikely to me that Ardour could cause Linux to destroy a hard drive. On the other hand hard drives do fail. Logically, they are likely to be running a program when they do fail. It's therefore easy to think it's the program hurting the drive when in fact it was just the drive failing. I don't know much about running the 'SMART' tools, but I think it's time for me to start learning. And again, I think that having a good LiveCD for looking at these things helps a lot. - Mark