On 06/20/2010 08:43 AM, Richard Shaw was caught red-handed while writing::
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Kam Leo<kam.leo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> You don't have to take smartd's word about the health of your drive.
> Run the manufacturer's diagnostic.
>
May not make a difference. I'm not sure about all manufacturers, but
on many consumer level drives the manufacturer software just checks
smart, like on my 500GB segate that's been RMA'd 3 times so far (on
fourth drive).
I would recommend running a tool like MHDD which is available as a
part of System Rescue CD. It will scan all your sectors and try to
read the data off bad sectors if possible. I actually disected a
System Rescue CD and pulled the parts off of it I wanted and have grub
boot options on all my PCs. (Memtest, MHDD, System Rescue CD)
Richard
Just downloaded the system rescue cd iso.
Will see what it does.
I tried to file for an rma, but the serial num and the part num
were unrecognizable by the support site. Strange!!
I had mistakenly stated that the drive was a WD. It is actually
a seagate, and the seagate site did not recognize the serial number.
Tried many times, to no avail.