At Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:13:03 +0000 (GMT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > 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? Unless the power supply itself is failing. > > Keith > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments