I've stumbled across the problem with RAM during my days as a PC support but that is not the case this time.
i cross my fingers, hope you go lucky with your harddrive. good luck!
]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=14192005-11-07T20:54:15Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=122497#p122497I've stumbled across the problem with RAM during my days as a PC support but that is not the case this time.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=39892005-11-07T20:49:51Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=122496#p122496well, i've seen servers which needed a hdd replacement over and over until we realized it was their ram... :twisted:]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=14192005-11-07T20:44:58Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=122494#p122494fsck.reiserfs didn't say anything about bad blocks, just plainly reported "1 corruption found" and told me to --rebuild-tree. Then again, this was the first time I've ever used fsck.reiserfs so maybe the part with the corruption wasn't so clear to me.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=39892005-11-07T20:42:02Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=122493#p122493badblocks should give you information about the physical state of your harddisk. best would be to use its read-/write-tests but to fully take advantage of these it would mean to destroy all data on the disk by writing random data onto each block. :?]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=14192005-11-07T20:20:34Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=122490#p122490Got my new HD installed but fsck.reiserfs found some problems which it fixed. System runs stable but I'd really like to make a total check to see if the drive really is ok. Any diagnostic/checking utilities for this?