[ale] OT: hardware question

[Jim Kinney]

That does not sound like a bad drive. It sounds like a totally broken
reboot procedure. It's leaving files open. check your software for updates.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com
> wrote:

> Okay, to try and get this on topic a bit, I am running Centos in a VM on
> my macbook, but I have a repeating problem that is baffling me.
>
> I upgraded my drive to a 7200 750g drive a while back.  Soon after, I
> started having problems that seemed to be drive related.  The drive was
> still under warranty, so I returned it, purchased another identical drive.
>
> All was good for a while.  Now, I'm having issues again.
>
> Here's the odd part.  I generally leave my laptop up 24/7.  I only have
> a problem when I shut it down and then reboot.
>
> When I attempt to reboot, it won't.  I go into the disk utility and
> check the disk for errors. Sure enough, errors.  I fix them, reboot all
> is well.
>
> This happened twice this morning.  The last time, I didn't even try to
> boot it, I went directly into the recovery mode, fired up the disk
> utility and sure enouch, checking the disk shows errors and says I must
> fix the errors.
>
> My point is, if the drive is going bad, why don't I have issues with the
> laptop when I leave it up for extended periods of time?
>
> Do you folks think I've just gotten into a bad batch of drives?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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