[56251] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Case 231014: This case has recently been updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Sep 5 20:28:21 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:28:19 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
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bobsand@MIT.EDU <hotline@MIT.EDU> wrote on Wed, 5 Sep 2001
at 17:32:07 -0500 in <200109052132.RAA06187@hampster.mit.edu>:
> reinstall of software seems to have fixed the trouble
> for now :) Thanks for the heads up ...
If so, I think that's probably very deceptive. The hard drive was
making very nasty NOISES, and if reinstalling moved the bits around
on the disk so the bad spot is not currently in use, that's not
a good solution..., since sooner or later they will come up again.
--jhawk
