Re: strange disk corruption
This happend to me, and the problem was faulty memory. Use memtest86+
to check your memory, or as other users suggested before, was to check
for bad cabling by doing dd of your harddisk partition into /dev/null
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:48:09 -0500, Daniel B. <removedanielthis@fgm.com> wrote:
> briand@aracnet.com wrote:
>
> > ...
> > I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot.
> >
> > And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file
> > system errors and reboots the system.
>
> Is it an IDE disk? Are you running with DMA enabled?
>
> Some versions of the kernel have a bug with some IDE controllers
> that leads to severe disk corruption.
>
> If it's an IDE disk you probably want to turn off IDE DMA as
> early as possible in the boot process (I think it's "ide=nodma"
> in the kernel boot command line).
>
> Daniel
>
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