Won't work under raid/ahci, switch to IDE in the BIOS for testing. Do not use on actual raid member drives.
Your passing up a great tool, don't let the age fool ya! As to bad sectors = failing drive that's not nearly accurate if it's the first few failing and lots of spares available. In fact one don't think a vendor will give you an rma for that either. All drives have bad sectors, remember the old days of entering them manually on a new drive? Now they do that at manufacturing and allow for a few more as normal. On Dec 10, 2011 3:00 PM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've already got an RMA started. I don't trust a drive after it starts > throwing bad sectors, period. Just seemed like a good drive to throw this > SW > at. > > After booting to it, I'm having second thoughts. Doesn't detect the drive, > no menus, cryptic command line, and last updated 6 years ago...I think I'll > pass. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington > > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 4:54 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [H] SATA Cables > > > > At 06:42 PM 10/12/2011, Greg Sevart wrote: > > >Agreed--going to try that out now on a drive with some high realloc > sectors. > > >Looks like a strong candidate for the standard utility toolbelt. :) > > > > I'm not sure on the whole remapping thing - seems sort of like > > Spinrite in that regard, and I figure hard drives are sort of cheap > > to "repair", but I'm going to give it a shot. I think have some > > dying drives at the shop. > > > > T > > > > > >
