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.
-wolfgang
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