At Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:13:03 +0000 (GMT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:51:02 pm RedShift wrote:
On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
Could a bad controller or bad RAM cause Hard Drive sector errors?
Neither bad RAM or a bad controllor can physically damage a hard drive. A bad controller will not cause reallocated sectors. It can however cause UDMA CRC errors and other weird non-SMART related behaviour.
Might want to check the power supply as well. Bad/flakey power can indeed case damage to the drive surface; been there, done that, have two Maxtor 250GB drives with scribbled servo data to prove it.
OK.
I'm running the server from an APC UPS Back-UPS 650, so there should not be any glitches in the power supply, should there?
Unless the power supply itself is failing.
Keith