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| From | The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.setup, comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) |
| Date | 2011-07-23 02:23 +0100 |
| Organization | albasani.net |
| Message-ID | <j0d7rb$cot$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink) |
| References | <4e28ac1d$0$14975$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <j0c18i$6v4$1@dont-email.me> <j0cgu1$ncu$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Paul wrote: > Noob wrote: >> [ Please note that I've added comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage >> to the list of newsgroups ] >> >> Short version of the rest of original message : the first sector >> had been shifted by 14 bytes. Weird, right? >> >> And the plot thickens. Later that same night, I copied the >> MBR a second time in the live CD environment; and this second >> time, the first 14 bytes of the MBR were ZERO, i.e. >> they had changed !! >> >> Even stranger, the next morning, I booted the PC, >> and the 14-byte offset had disappeared. >> >> I'm starting to think that this might be a hardware problem, >> as both Linux AND the BIOS seem to have had troubles getting >> the MBR consistently. Something else I haven't mentioned: >> when Windows resumes from hibernation, the whole system >> sometime reboots (this started about 2/3 weeks ago), around >> the same time I changed the RAM from 2x512 to 2x1024. >> >> I tested the RAM, no errors after one hour of checking. >> The S.M.A.R.T. counters for the HDD claim the drive is >> "healthy". >> >> However, considering that the drive is inserting random >> garbage around requested data, I'm wondering if this could >> be the drive's controller failing? Would this show up in >> a S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic? >> >> Or am I on the wrong track, and do you see something else >> that might be responsible? >> >> Regards. >> > > Why would hardware have such a failure mode ? Doesn't it > seem strange to you ? Nope. Couple of corrupted bits on an address can easily shift everything 14 bytes.. It is in fact FD in hex ..so a bus collisions that sets the whole lot to FF except the second to last bit..when it should be all 0's...
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Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@localhost> - 2011-07-22 00:45 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:50 +1200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@localhost> - 2011-07-22 01:26 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-21 19:38 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 16:29 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 14:28 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) g.fink@gmx.net (Gernot Fink) - 2011-07-22 04:35 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2011-07-21 19:20 -0700
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 11:00 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-07-22 05:29 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 12:01 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) g.fink@gmx.net (Gernot Fink) - 2011-07-22 10:28 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-07-21 23:33 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-21 21:26 -0700
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 16:25 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Bob Willard <BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> - 2011-07-22 12:17 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 18:35 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-07-22 18:41 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 14:52 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-23 02:23 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-22 19:19 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-23 20:51 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-24 16:54 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-07-24 15:29 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-27 11:36 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-27 12:13 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-27 20:48 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-28 10:43 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 00:49 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-23 09:44 +1200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 10:05 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 20:58 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 11:31 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:18 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 19:02 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:37 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 17:34 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-23 21:25 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 08:15 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-24 23:08 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 09:46 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-25 02:19 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-24 22:38 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 19:38 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 19:34 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-08-03 21:56 -0700
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2011-08-04 08:15 -0500
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:10 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) gordonb.22upl@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-07-23 17:15 -0500
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-24 16:42 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-10-27 11:13 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-10-27 15:24 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-10-28 11:06 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 00:49 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-08-01 11:27 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com> - 2011-08-06 10:00 -0700
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