A bit OT, but most drive vendors have drive tests that you can download
and run, some even run under linux; if not, many can be run from a dos boot
floppy. They can read the S.M.A.R.T. data off the drive, and tell you with
a good degree of certainty whether you have hardware problems or not.
Just because you see hardware errors when using xfs and not when using ext3
doesn't mean that xfs is in any way at fault; drive access patterns could be
quite
different between the two.
-Eric
> After getting fed up, I reinstalled "/" as ext3 on /dev/h da
> (My Maxtor hard drive) and checked
> for bad sectors this time while installation. /dev/sda(3ware RAID)
> still has my home directories and has XFS on it.
> Everything went thru well (as I was expecting) and my
> redhat is running for now.
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