Re: theoretical question about disks and os

[Raphael Marmier <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, that clarified things for me.

In fact I had 2 drives failing me nearly the same way, and both where 
IBM Deskstar for 2000 and 2001. I thought about heat at the time, but 
was not so sure anymore as they wheren't running so hot. Very sensitive 
to heat they must be.

Raphael

Raphael Marmier wrote:
> Is it possible for a poorly written disk driver/filesystem to trash 
> blocks on a hard disk? By trashing I mean that subsequent access result 
> in an i/o error, aven accross reboot.
>
> I have such a disk where it happened a few years ago. Curiously, the 
> damaged blocks where the first blocks of partitions that where mounted. 
> The maker's test software says the drive's ok, as well as s.m.a.r.t., 
> although it needed a "reformat" with the same tool to get rid of the bad 
> blocks.
>
> I would think it must be some kind of hardware failure, but a recent 
> discussion about linux filesystems makes me wonder... linux was running 
> on that disk, after all, with reaiserfs. And it was 3 years ago.
>
> Raphael