On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:36:20AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> And even more important, should I be asking for an RMA from Maxtor? > > > >If it's still in warranty, you're seeing filesystem errors, and SMART > >is indicating that your filesystem errors are caused by hardware > >problems, then you should be calling Maxtor. > > > >Drives go bad, and all of the system-level tools in the world are > >basically helpless to prevent it :( > > > >Dustin > > From the progress its reporting, I'll have to cancel the amanda run tonight > as > it won't be done. In an 1:10:30, its telling me 3.44% done. The drive is > about 120 days old now. >
Slowness could come from a group of bad blocks. As it tries to write to one, it retries (10 times?) then allocates a replacement from the unused blocks and goes back were it was writing to bad blocks only to find another bad block. -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
