On Sunday 19 April 2009, Jon LaBadie wrote: >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.
Its still running at about the same rate nearly 50% done, and nearly 18 hours elapsed time. I guess I didn't tell it to make a badblocks file, and so far no errors have been spit out. And how is Jon these days? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Excellent day for drinking heavily. Spike the office water cooler.
