I've had 3 IDE disks die on my 9.3 desktop this year. I'm the only one in my office that runs Linux on the desktop and also the only one with problems. Put it down to bad luck rather than OS. I've got hundreds of servers running Linux and IDE which have been up for years without problems. Think it's just luck. Matthew On Thursday 03 November 2005 16:18, Kai Ponte wrote:

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Hi,

Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the

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But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in

I had a similar issue. My laptop was bought new in July. From then until October I ran 9.3 - I had three occasions where my system would go down and require a fsck -rebuild. I never lost data, and keep a KDAR DVD handy anyway, but it was wierd. So far I haven't had the issue at all after re-formatting and upgrading to 10.0.

HTH! -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com

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