-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2008-10-30 at 19:58 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Also the disk is continuously having minute read errors when reading, and correcting them. This is expected and normal. Only when this error rate goes up consistently you have to worry.
Read or write errors are *NOT* normal.
Yes, they are. Magnetization is so small that signals are near the noise level; they use error correction code to yield clean safe data. This is different that sector error. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkKUP8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UdjgCffPde/AgFySsDnuctLmqZtJMJ 7zEAn3aap9eAQ3UZg0BxyNRDPNDRWbBA =VdqT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org