Interesting Pattern In HDD Failures

[Gary Jarrel]

I've never come across this either. My concern is more for anyone else
who might run into the issue, since I work in the IT industry, I can
get the HDDs swapped over pretty quickly, and can reinstall my system
in only a couple of hours using Ubuntu. Gives me a break from day to
day work :)

I've just converted a few MP3s to ogg vorbis, will see if I can cause
any more bad sectors on the HDD

Thanks for the advice

Gary

On 10/15/06, Robert E. Butts <himco2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>  On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 12:03 +1000, Gary Jarrel wrote:
>
>  I realise that the obvious solution would be to NOT play MP3s :) but
>  perhaps someone can give me a few more ideas as to what the problem
>  could be - at least it's reproducible, but I don't want to sit here
>  all day reproducing bad sectors on my HDD :)
>
>  I can't address your problem, but I can suggest a workaround:  use Audacity
> to convert a few mp3's to ogg vorbis format, and see if the problem
> persists.  If it does not, convert to ogg vorbis.  Lots of advantages not
> least of which is it sounds better.
>
>  Your problem sounds way serious.  I've never encountered anything like
> that, and I download mp3s by the gigabyte.
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