On Saturday 24 Jan 2015 18:18:36 Dale wrote: > Since I already replaced this drive, nothing lost. We did learn > something tho. Just because it claims to have fixed itself doesn't mean > it will be a long term solution. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Your repeated dd action probably relocated some bad blocks. I would also run a long test overnight to see where and how it fails. I recently had a drive which went sideways on me. Running dd was successful in relocating some problematic sectors. However, repeating the smart tests revealed that more and more sectors were going bad. I recall a warning that a catastrophic drive failure was imminent, when reading the output of 'smartctl -a'. Instead of dd'ing the whole drive, just dd the suspect sector and repeat the smart tests to see how things move around. I concur with other posters that this drive should only be used for experimentation, rather than production or back ups. -- Regards, Mick
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