two major failures after yesterday updates - RESOLVED

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:45 -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> This evening I removed the HD and installed the brand new hard drive.
> The
> machine now readily booted to a PartedMagic LiveCD and I was able to
> partition the drive to prepare for an f11 clean install which I have
> now
> just completed.
> 
> So in this case it turned out to be a total failure of the hard drive
> - the
> machine is less than 2 years old, so a drive failure at this age is
> surprising, the more so considering it has always been on a UPS to
> protect
> the mains supplying it. The new HD is a different make to the
> original, and
> hopefully will last a little longer than the previous one! Anyway I am
> very
> glad that this turned out to be unrelated to the operating system,
> although
> I am still trying to get to the bottom of what happened to the other
> machine
> - which was clearly a software issue.
----
hardly surprising at all...consumer grade SATA hard drives have become
unreliable and that is why none of the manufacturer's warranties them
beyond a year now.

Craig


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