HD corruption

[jludwig]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 00:14, Edward wrote:
> BlkPoohba wrote:
> 
> > This is probably not a Fedora issue but i am using Fedora Core 1 so I
> > thought I would ask.  Sunday I was able to access /mnt/Music/ in its
> > entirety.  Last nite I could access everything except for
> > /mnt/Music/Full Albums.  Today I can't access anything.  When I 'ls
> > /mnt/Music/' I get: 
> > ls: /mnt/Music/79?..: No such file or directory
> > ls: /mnt/Music/�▒@�@ /: No such file or directory
> > ls: /mnt/Music/?
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> A lot of people here have given you plenty of HDD/Backup tips already, 
> so I won't re-hash, but is your system otherwise quite stable? I've seen 
> this kind of thing happen a few times with bad RAM as well.
> 
> Can't hurt to run a full memtest86 on it overnight?
> 
> Regards,
> ED.
I second this. I have seen all sorts or weird errors from both memory
and DMA issues.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>