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    New drive badblocks.

    I found some more info: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks The Linux on my Core i5 where I could reproduce the corruption so easily runs smartctl on all disks every 10 minutes, the AMD runs smartctl every hour, so this explains what I saw. It also says the...
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    New drive badblocks.

    I found out something new: if I disable the write cache of the drive with hdparm -W 0 /dev/sdb, the problem goes away. Before, I would get an error within a few minutes, and now it's been running for several hours with no errors at all. This supports my theory that the problem is in the drive...
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    New drive badblocks.

    Hi, I'm seeing a similar problem. Your post is the only thing I can find that resembles what I see. I believe it is not a bug in Linux or badblocks, but a problem with the drive. hdd: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: SAMSUNG HD204UI Serial Number...
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