Re: Corruption

[Jeff Vian <jvian10 charter net>]

J.L. Coenders wrote:

> Although fsck indicates a lot of problems, I think it is not the disk which is 
> malfunctioning. I have run the Maxtor diagnostics over it and that gave 'a 
> certified functioning device', so no bad sectors or anything.
>
> But I ran memtest86 afterwards and discovered that two addresses are broken, 
> so that might be the problem. I am going to get it out today and see if 
> everything will work then.
>
> Jeroen
>  
That is possiblem but what 2 addresses????

I have a box that functions perfectly but memtest86 always reports 2 
addresses in the same test as an error.
Does not matter if I run the test once or if I run it a hundred times, 
it always reports the same addresses, yet it works perfectly.


> On Friday 30 April 2004 22:00, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>  
>
> > Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb J.L. Coenders um 21:24:
> >    
> >
> > > How can I manually start fsck? Usually it only starts when power fails...
> > > when I try to start manually, it warns me about the device which is
> > > mounting. When I try to unmount, it wont work, probably because it is the
> > > main disk.
> > >
> > > Jeroen
> > >      
> > touch /forcefsck
> >
> > and then reboot
> >
> > Alexander
> >    
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