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Subject: Re: [9fans] read: i/o error: at installation
From: "Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:49:10 +0200
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> 
> and it prompts me again to partdisk, and it never ends. I really don't think
> that this is the hard disks problem, it's a barely used 160GB Maxtor drive.
> Has anyone had any problems similar to this? Could it be because some of the
> hardware? (Unlikely, but...)


Sure about the disk? Disks may be broken when they arrive (broke on transport), etc.
'Not used much' may mean 'maybe I could not yet discover the issues'

So what is the controller involved? What chipset, etc?