[lug] SD write timeouts, drive appears to be fine

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:52:19 -0700
Jed S. Baer wrote:

> I'm getting some HD write errors in kern.log. At the time of the errors,
> the only thing running is rdiff-backup, which writes to the drive in
> question. rdiff-backup reports 0 errors on multiple backup runs.

It's like Groundhog Day. Got replacement RAM from Crucial, and all was
fine for a while. Now the same errors are back. I'm going to conclude
that something in the motherboard is bad, to the point of damaging the
RAM. Fortunately, mobos aren't expensive these days.