On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:18, martin f krafft wrote:
> What is weird is that S.M.A.R.T. reports no errors on most drives.
> I use the smartmontools, and even long offline tests don't produce
> any error information.
Martin,
Try checking the drives on yet another machine; How old are these
machines ? Might it be a motherboard fault as Alex points out. Also, it
might be worth installing windows on a small partition and running
scandisk surface scan to see if that picks up the faults as well.
I have a few machines running IDE without any problems yet. However, the
only hdd that ever died on me was an IBM.
20 hdd sounds like a lot - how many machines are you running ? It might
be worth getting a new machine to see they handle the hdds better. Also,
it might be the supplier, try getting drives from another supplier.
Just some thoughts,
Shri
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