I have a server running Mandrake 9.0, 2 Western Digital 60Gig drives, and 1 Maxtor 20Gig drive. Lately I've noticed it making high pitched noises (like a disk would make right before it crashes), and the machine itself has crashed a few times now. There's an e2fs error writing to certain blocks. They seem to be random, and in large numbers. I've ran e2fsck, checked for bad blocks in read only mode, and so far it's found nothing. Changing /etc/fstab to mount all non essential disks read only, and removing a good number of cron jobs, will let it run without any errors, but that kinda defeats most of the functions of the server (backups). Is it possible that a disk can fail on a write, but not a read? Or am I getting a different problem (I hope)? And if it is a disk crash, how long would you guess I have till it's no longer readable? I'm about three weeks away from affording a replacement disk. Thanks all... -- Chris Frederick <cdf123 at speakeasy.net> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list