Andy Smith wrote: > c) In your Debian machine's hardware like storage controller, drives or > memory. Seems unlikely since your operating system would just totally > malfunction relatively quickly.
I once saw this happen with a PCI extender (a right-angle adapter for a rackmount case) and a 3Ware RAID card. Since the RAID volumes did not include the root filesystem, data corruption happened after successful booting and during the normal course of operations. -dsr-
