Re: Huge unreliability - does Linux have something to do with it?

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <5a2cf1f605020401037aa610b9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> I halted the machine correctly yesterday night. I never dropped the
> box in 3 years. Am I just being unlucky? Or could the fact that I am
> using Linux on the box affect the reliability in some ways on that
> particular hardware (Dell Inspiron 8100)? I run Linux on 3 other
> computers and never had single problems with them.

There are a lot of possible problems with your actual hardware. Like
Interrupt handling, power control, dma, ... Those are seldom but possible.
Notebooks tend to require some special handling.

> Could a hardware failure look like bad sectors to fsck?

A failure of the bus or a former sporadic error can cause defective fs, but
normally you have a read error in fsck no structure error.

Are you using hdparm? is the system perhaps overheating or overclocked?

Greetings
Bernd
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