Interesting Pattern In HDD Failures

[Robert E. Butts]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 12:03 +1000, Gary Jarrel wrote:

> I realise that the obvious solution would be to NOT play MP3s :) but
> perhaps someone can give me a few more ideas as to what the problem
> could be - at least it's reproducible, but I don't want to sit here
> all day reproducing bad sectors on my HDD :) 


I can't address your problem, but I can suggest a workaround:  use
Audacity to convert a few mp3's to ogg vorbis format, and see if the
problem persists.  If it does not, convert to ogg vorbis.  Lots of
advantages not least of which is it sounds better.  

Your problem sounds way serious.  I've never encountered anything like
that, and I download mp3s by the gigabyte.  
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