Corruption

[Jeff Vian]

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.
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>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.
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>Jeroen
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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.


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>On Friday 30 April 2004 22:00, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb J.L. Coenders um 21:24:
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>>>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.
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>>>Jeroen
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>>touch /forcefsck
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>>and then reboot
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>>Alexander
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