On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> wrote:
On Friday 30 January 2009, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> writes:
>> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail
>>>Always - 955
>>
>> It has to be about out of spare sectors, I haven't ever seen one that
>> high. This is your wake up call I believe.
>
>Crap, a count of non-zero should be his wakeup call. All my disks
>that have grown bad spots soon died. Google noticed the same thing in
>their disk study.
>
Hey, I was trying to be nice.
>I'd copy the data on to a new disk, zero out the old disk and give it
>to someone you don't like very much. ;-)
Nah, just bin it, its toast.
Well it's a Seagate and is under warranty. I went ahead and paid the
$20 for the "Advanced Replacement" so I can get the replacement before
sending them the bad one. I downloaded both their bootable ISO and the
linux version of seatools. Interestingly the short test showed the
drive is good but the long test found an error.
Richard