on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:18:07PM -0600, Scott Wehrenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:21:34PM +0000, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > the guarantee. What is the best way to WIPE data on the disk ? > > I actually had the same error while running Reiser-FS on my IBM box. I, > apparently erroneously since you appear to be using ext2, attributed the > error > to Reiser as numerous people have reported corruption errors with > Reiser. I noticed some have suggested that you simply delete your > partitions and reinstall which makes perfect sense and is what I > originally attempted. To my chagrin this didn't fix the problem as the > next install almost immediately had the exact same problem. > > According to an IBM diagnostics utility, (I would love to offer the URL > for it but IBM's site is currently down) the error resulted from a > corrupt LBA block. The hard drive had to be wiped using their utility to > fix the problem and now everything is working alright.
My policy on storage is *strictly* "fool me once". Once storage has demonstrated itself to be unstable, it's remaindered. If your vendor won't accept this policy, switch, and state explicitly the reason for doing so. Your data, time, and recovery hassles aren't worth the $100 cost of 50GB of storage. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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