If you have any diagnostic programs that came with your system, you
might want to run a surface scan and see what comes back from that.
Sometimes the act of restarting the system (especially from a cold
start) is enough to flush whatever cruft is in memory, cache, etc.

Just a thought... 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
Sent: April 19, 2009 11:36
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: e2fsck question

On Sunday 19 April 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett
<gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> 
wrote:
>> And even more important, should I be asking for an RMA from Maxtor?
>
>If it's still in warranty, you're seeing filesystem errors, and SMART
>is indicating that your filesystem errors are caused by hardware
>problems, then you should be calling Maxtor.
>
>Drives go bad, and all of the system-level tools in the world are
>basically helpless to prevent it :(
>
>Dustin

>From the progress its reporting, I'll have to cancel the amanda run
tonight as 
it won't be done.  In an 1:10:30, its telling me 3.44% done.  The drive
is 
about 120 days old now.

Thanks Dustin.

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