Hard Disk Failure

Hi people,

I have subscribed myself to this mailing list just to ask this question although this may not be the right place but we are desperate. Somebody please HELP US.

According to the Changes Document in the Kernel Source tree the minimum version of e2fsprogs required for 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 is 1.25. We were making a distribution and due to a horrendous oversight the version of e2fsprogs remained old as in 1.23-2. We are using ext3 filesystem.

Now this Distribution is bundled along with its own Hardware and about 45% of these PC's Harddisk are failing after a period of 2-3 weeks. On reinstallation they become ok but again after 2-3 weeks they fail again and finally after 2 months of this the Hard Disk fails COMPLETELY and cannot be used again for any distribution to be installed.

All I want to know is what is the probability that the above oversight of e2fsprogs version is responsible for the HDD failure thats all. Since we are totally clueless and are unable to replicate the problem in a controlled environment.

Thanks in advance,

Arindam Dey

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