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Mystery problems in complex systems

Mystery problems in complex systems

Posted Aug 17, 2008 16:38 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Mystery problems in complex systems by tialaramex
Parent article: An update on Fedora's "issues"

Those symthoms are very similar to what I had way back with a Western Digital disk + DMA: The filesystem got slowly corrupted, and in the end nothing worked. Also when in a machine the IDE cable was wrapped around the power cables. Bad disk, controller? Bad RAM? CPU overheats (bad fan)?


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Mystery problems in complex systems

Posted Aug 17, 2008 23:10 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

>Also when in a machine the IDE cable was wrapped around the power cables. Bad disk,
controller? Bad RAM? CPU overheats (bad fan)?

Sounds like bad spirits and particles. 80-pin cables have at least 40 grounds just to combat
the crosstalk. And then there is also the magnetic field around the Molex line. The
combination sounds hardly good.

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