Re: ack! help!!!! something went dreadfully wrong!

On 09/01/2004, Tobias Schlottke wrote:
> The reason why it's working atm is (like someone else said before) that you
> reinstalled all files that where on the damaged sectors of your harddisk and
> placed them on other sectors

I'd agree with this - 0x40 UncorrectableError's tend to happen with
drive errors on a sector that the drive's ECC has been unable to
correct (it can also happen with thermal corruption apparently but I
dont know about that). The drive is built to automatically fix these
sort of sector problems by remapping the sector onto a reserved
section of the platter. In removing KDE and reinstalling a kernel you
may just have been lucky and the drive might have done just this.
Unfortunately, theres only a certain amount of times the drive can do
this (the reserved area is limited in size) so I would still start
looking for a new drive.....

Marcus

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