On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Lamar Owen <lowen at 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? Keith -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5