[vorbis] Corrupt Files

[fungus]

Amy Schoenhofen wrote:
> You'de think if the HD was bad enough to be corrupting Oggs right and
> left while *reading them to play, you'd think he would be seeing a lot
> of bad data *everywhere, in everything. The system should be crashing
> every 5 minutes from corrupted swap file, etc. etc, and it wouldn't come
> back on a reboot.
> 

Not necessarily. He might have 1Gb of ram (no swap file)
and the OS might be on a good part of the disk. OTOH, a
disk read error is a read error and Windows will usually
tell you about it.

If you have SMART enabled disks, the best way to find out
the truth is with a SMART tool, eg. Active SMART from
http://www.ariolic.com

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