HOLY CRAP: Cellar loses a WEEK of messages

Undertoad · 08-09-2004, 08:45 AM

The really annoying thing is not knowing why it happened. This time I kicked off a really rigorous test of the drive, which does the usual testing... it writes different patterns to every track on the drive, and then reads it back to compare it. Neither affected partition had any bad sectors.

Last time I thought the monitor, which was known to be bad, might have fed voltage back into the system and crashed it mid-write or something. This time there was no monitor! So what caused a perfectly good, freshly-built filesystem to suddenly go corrupt for no obvious reason? Why did it fail and why does it work now?

Hackers? Can't rule it out.

08-09-2004, 08:45 AM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The really annoying thing is not knowing why it happened. This time I kicked off a really rigorous test of the drive, which does the usual testing... it writes different patterns to every track on the drive, and then reads it back to compare it. Neither affected partition had any bad sectors. Last time I thought the monitor, which was known to be bad, might have fed voltage back into the system and crashed it mid-write or something. This time there was no monitor! So what caused a perfectly good, freshly-built filesystem to suddenly go corrupt for no obvious reason? Why did it fail and why does it work now? Hackers? Can't rule it out.

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