[OT] Re: [Ipw2100-devel] Possible harddisk corrpution due to ipw2100 driver

[Benjamin L. <ben...@us...>]

Wow! See comments inserted below...

On Wednesday, 2004-10-27 at 10:57:51 PM, Hilbert Mostert scribbled:

> laptop has been returned three times to the reseller because of an corrupted 
> harddisk. While this could be a hardware problem the problem always returns 
> when i'm using my wireless network under Linux.

I doubt it's the network driver but guess it's _possible.

However, it sounds more like a (still) faulty hard disk drive. You may like
to try using disk 'burn in' / testing software like bonnie++ and see what
happens (with the 2100 driver module unloaded).

See how warm the laptop becomes? ;-P

> 
> The wireless adapter is an Intel 2100b Wireless Device, and when I start it 
> the whole laptop warms up and after a while i get DriveReady SeekComplete 

Warms up... wowza. ;-P

> errors, and sometimes when i reboot the partitions are corrupt, or my 
> bootloader is corrupted. When i switch off the laptop and leave it off for a 
> while the laptop boots without problems. It has cost me two hd's already 
> because in the end the whole hd is broken.
> 

Could still be broken, unfortunately... ;-P

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