On Friday 11 August 2006 06:26, M Harris wrote:
I do think you have the diagnosis backwards, however. I believe your lockups are causing the drive corruption and the lockups are hardware related--- very slim chance this would be a gcc problem... in fact, I would say no way.
i tend to agree - i think gcc was somehow triggering/demonstrating the problem. The filesystem on that partition is well over 2 years old, without a reformat in that time, so maybe it's just got a lot of cruft in the filesystem internals (i spend most of my time programming/compiling, which generates tons of files). The rest of the partitions on that drive aren't demonstrating any problems (so far).
Set your machine up for a memory check... let it cycle several times (couple of hours) and see what turns up.
That's the next course of action. i've had this box 2.5 years, so i don't have any reason to believe my RAM is bad. In my experience, if HW is going to die, it does so when it's very young or very old. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts