[Discuss] Fedora 8 and new system works straight out of the box.

[Deryk Barker]

John Blomfield wrote:
> One quick update!  After updating all the latest patches and kernel I 
> reboot and had a file system failure!  Fedora recovered well putting 
> me at a file system recovery prompt and telling me to run fsck 
> manually.  I ran through numerous fixes ending in an automatic reboot 
> and Fedora recovered the file system without any noticeable problems 
> with the installation.  My conclusion is that there must have been 
> some bad sectors on the new HD which were then bypassed.  Its years 
> since I have seen bad sectors on a drive!
>
I'd keep a very close eye on this: since the coming of IDE (Intelligent 
Drive Electronics!) bad sectors have been handled by the disk controller 
during a low-level format. If the disk is flakey, you may  have problems 
down the line.

I had a not dissimilar experience with my new office machine, getting 
the BIOS to rediscover the HDD fixed it - for now...