[PLUG] Mount can't make up its mind

Quentin Hartman qhartman at gmail.com
Wed May 2 03:14:58 UTC 2007


On 5/1/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> If it were the CPU I'd be having problems all over the place.
>
> I think the only hardware left to consider are the hard disks. Is there
> any software that will scan them to see if there are any physical
> defects?
>

Try doing some other I/O intensive thing, like "cat /dev/zero > zeroes.dat"
or something similar to workout the HDD. Perhaps it is a heat issue, but
it's not in the CPU, but rather the drive controller on the Southbridge...

Download the Ultimate Boot CD and run MHDD on the drives (hard disk tools,
4th or 5th page, item F5. Once in MHDD, select your drive and hit F4 to
bring up the scan option window and then hit F4 again to start it) as that
will certainly work them out in a way completely isolated from your
potentially questionsable system image.

-- 
-Regards-

-Quentin Hartman-



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